“ Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves. Kathleen Norris
“ Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best. Gyalwa Dokhampa
“ You don’t care what anyone thinks about you,’ he said.‘That’s crazy,’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’‘I can’t tell,’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening… Rainbow Rowell
“ You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. Criss Jami
“ Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have bee… Kathleen Dowling Singh
“ Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others. Vironika Tugaleva
“ Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it's impossible to look an ape in the eye and… Frans de Waal
“ The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to No… William Barrett
“ Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. Idries Shah
“ The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism. Criss Jami
“ We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God. Jen Wilkin
“ Everything that is in the world, there is a correspondence on every level of existence. The macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm, and the way we experience the outer world is a reflection of our… Kristiane Backer
“ The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sun… Kristiane Backer
“ You won’t fail! That’s the fear in you lying to you. You will succeed! That’s why fear is trying so hard to stop you. I encourage you to take that first step. Walk into your purpose and do what you we… Stephanie Lahart
“ It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any ca… Boris Pasternak
“ Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks at what lies behind the clothes … He looks… Kristiane Backer
“ There IS a better future for you! Get rid of that negative and defeated attitude. Stop tearing yourself down and learn to build yourself up. Speak positively about yourself. If you’re not satisfied wi… Stephanie Lahart
“ I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that t… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does. Vivian Amis
“ We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. Sōseki Natsume
