Top 1200 Self Consciousness Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

The universe is in the experience. It's not just out there. What's out there, we don't know. But for humans it's an experience just like the universe for a dolphin or an insect with 100 eyes is a different experience. Our universe is a human universe experienced in human consciousness and, unless we understand how consciousness operates, we will never actually be able to participate in the creation of our personal and collective reality.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.