“ You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. Cleveland Amory
“ Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. David Grayson
“ We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves. Parker J. Palmer
“ Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. Adi Shankaracarya
“ Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person. Jurgen Habermas
“ At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact. Unarine Ramaru
“ I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves. Ama H. Vanniarachchy
“ There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature. Floriano Martins
“ If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING. Jay Woodman
“ To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life. Peprah Boasiako
“ The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Seamus Heaney
“ The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. Marianne Williamson
