Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in lif...
She was looking for something I could never give her. Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it i...
So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturi...
The first product of self-knowledge is humility, Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves.
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, th...
The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.
To say I love you one must know first how to say the I.
Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second...
Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge
Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
We can only go to the limits of ourselves—I’ve learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we’re not good for anyone. - Beryl Markham
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already...
We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both wit...
When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...
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