Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves
He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just...
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still rema...
To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness t...
Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
Be what you are not. The true self is no one.
We are the mountains we must cross.
Conflict is the essence of the self.
Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.
It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in...
It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos.The modern objective consciousness will go to any length to prove that it is not unique in the Cosmos, and by this very effort establishes...
Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking that a grove of trees had grown up around me. Doubt nothing, believe everything, was my friend’s idea...
If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!
As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.
The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].
Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.
The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzle...
The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.
Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.
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