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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Self

"So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation."

Self Silence Meditation
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Michael Chekhov Actor, Director
Self

"When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement."

Two Self Expansion
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed."

Men Self Energy
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"I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror."

Thinking Self Mirrors
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Self

"When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me."

Self Light Darkness
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Self

"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

Eye Self Independent
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Diogenes Philosopher
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"Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice."

Self Philosophy Practice
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"Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being."

Heart Self Reality
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Self

"Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth."

Art Self Order
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."

Self Passion Envy
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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens."

Self Humanity Liberty
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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Self

"My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."

Self Modesty Departure
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Self

"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance."

Inspirational Self Ephemeral
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."

Self Doe May
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