What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
The self cannot be self without other selves.
President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
Self Government won't work without self discipline.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.
When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.
Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
A speckled cat and a tame hare
Eat at my hearthstone
And sleep there;
And both look up to me alone
For learning and defence
As I look up to Providence.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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