To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.
Ilyas KassamTags: buddhism self evolution impermanence transience quantum
To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas KassamTags: happiness philosophy contentment self novelty monotony
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
Parker J. PalmerTags: self
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David MaloufThe most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest HemingwayTags: pain love relationships self
Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.
Kay LarsonTags: life zen mind self suffering ego individual
A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.
Ilyas KassamTags: man freedom self free-thought oneness
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
Robert Penn WarrenNot at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise in
nature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.
Tags: individuality self hair appearance
I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it over and over and it would never get through my thick skull because I'm always wanting and wanting because nothing is ever enough you are never enough I am never enough I am never enough I AM NEVER ENOUGH.
Amy ReedTags: self crazy bipolar-disorder
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