Top 1200 Higher Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

When you raise the budget, you make creative compromises. The higher the budget goes, the more cuts in your movie happen. When people talk about how movies are watered down, that's a direct reflection of money and budget. The less money you spend; the more risks you can take. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but at least you can try different stuff. The higher your budget is, the less you can do that.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.