Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
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...
To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be...
Getting to know who you are is the secret to ensuring that your life will not be dull and unnoticed
In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.
There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.
Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
Please God, whatever I was I am no longer….All is forgotten, if not forgiven—it could have come to that. But I don’t trust the thought. I don’t know if it’s because it would be too easy or too terribl...
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self era...
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their se...
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or W...
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
Showing 121 to 140 of 207 results