Self Quotes - Page 185

We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can impose their will on other people. Whatever bad reason they use to persuade others, these self-centered people are so caught up in the process that it seems to them all they have to do is to speak their wishes in a lofty and commanding tone of voice in order to convince everybody.

Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.