Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.
They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of human race that are not military and that are...
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.
SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctr...
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.
I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.
If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not
What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, a...
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.