I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the ext...
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
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...
The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or respo...
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or p...
I spent a long time in the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences ar...
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.
The knowledge and successful pursuit of your destiny brings riches into your world
Getting to know who you are is the secret to ensuring that your life will not be dull and unnoticed
The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself--he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, th...
The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.
Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this c...
Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
The earlier you know who you are, the more effective and successful a life you will be able to live