Adi Da Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Self Quotes

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Self Quotes , Endeavor Quotes

Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

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Tags : Alan Redpath Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Power Quotes , Self Quotes

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

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Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Scripture Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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Tags : Al Roker Quotes , Bad Day Quotes , Self Quotes

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Self Quotes

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Self Quotes

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Self Quotes

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Want Quotes

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Meditation Quotes

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Self Quotes