“ A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth Charlotte Bronte
“ What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves. Mark Strand
“ I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be.. Abha Maryada Banerjee
“ I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. Joseph Conrad
“ As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35) Prabhavananda
“ As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the… Prabhavananda
“ Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Gretel Ehrlich
“ I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night. Crystal L. Swain
“ If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in… Alan W. Watts
“ To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an… Kenan Malik
