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Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.

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.

...suggest that people's selective attention, encoding, retrieval and interpretation processes may work to ensure that their self-concepts will survive even in the face of a mountain of discrepant evidence.

Sunny put on eyebrows, eyelashes, makeup, matching pajamas, a silk robe, and then say looking at herself in the vanity mirror in her bathroom. She had experienced moments in her life when she realized that she was actually alive and living in the world, instead of watching a movie starring herself, or narrating a book with herself as the main character. This was not one of those moments. She felt like she was drifting one centimeter above her physical self, a spirit at odds with its mechanical counterpart. She stood up carefully. Everything looked just right.

Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking whatever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you're given.

Take care of yourself, you are your most valuable asset.

Take some time and figure out what you desire most from life. Wherever your desire is, your heart will be also. Seek the opportunity to become greater than your circumstances. You may not be where you want to be. But if you continue pushing forward and striving at a steady pace, you'll get there. All things take time.

Talks about the Self (Atma) and absolute Self (Parmatma) have no strain of worldly interactions in them. The Lord (Mahavira) has referred to that as silence.

Talk to yourself. Tell yourself you are beautiful. Tell yourself you are strong. See all the beauty that you have inside and speak it aloud. Let your mind see yourself in a positive light.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self.

That’s it”, Crow replies pointedly. “A theory that still doesn’t have any good counter-evidence is one worth pursuing. And right now? Pursuing it’s the only choice you have. Even if it means sacrificing yourself, you have to pursue it to the bitter end.

That said, what we can learn in the chapters ahead is enormous. We can maximize the chance of being heard and moving relationships forward. We can take a conversation to the next level when the initial foray doesn’t bring the desired result. We can stop nonproductive conversational habits so that an old relationship will take a new turn. We can clarify what we feel entitled to and responsible for—and what we really want to say. Or, alternatively, we can learn to sit more comfortable with our confusion. We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won’t speak to us at all.

That’s how it should be with you; stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real “I” to reveal itself." "What is the real "I"?" asked Veronika. Perhaps everyone else there knew, but did it matter: She must learn to care less about annoying others. "It's what you are, not what others make of you.

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

That which does not affect or obstruct anyone is called the Self. It does not obstruct even ignorance! Ignorance obstructs It, It does not obstruct ignorance! This fact about the absolute Self (Parmatma) is as clear as light, isn't it!

That which does not make one to do artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) is called the Atma (the Soul).

The absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed has been referred to as Charitra (Conduct of the Self).

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.

The Alchemical world view, in stark contrast to the scientific world view, where rational deterministic man is completely separated from both Nature and the Self, in fact the Self does not even exist. In the alchemical world view, all three are inextricably woven together and in "synchronistic" or "archetypal" events & occurrences in one's life, all distinctions between them blur and almost disappear.

The attainment of an established awareness of the Self (the Soul) transcends the four Vedas.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. Maybe we repeat because when we do, we recognize the behavior and the familiarity is comforting. So the self is just the consolation of our tendencies.

The best self is a beautiful soul.

The best self is a beautiful spirit.

The best self is a good being.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

The body is the eater. The eater does not Know and the Knower does not eat. Actions are carried out by another element (partattva) and the Knower is the element of the Self! The one who steals and the one being robbed are both the non-Self (anatma)!

The body is pudgal parinaam (the resultant state of that which is continuously undergoing change through the process of input and output) and Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is within. The entire world is pudgal parinaam.

The disconnect of men to women's bodies stands to reason. They'd have to care enough to see the other as a subject worthy of their earnest study. My own oblivion horrifies me more. I've been here all along but somehow not.

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.

The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we are separate beings comes from identifying with the world of form—with our names, our bodies, our roles, our beliefs, our thoughts, and all of the mental constructs that we have created; but even these are more connected to the universe than we realize.

The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it is (like) watering your own farm, but when it is used for other things [other than one’s own self], it is wasted water. Therefore, anyone whose ‘surplus time’ is spent on the Self, all his time is considered to have gone towards one’s own Self [The Soul].

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

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 sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.

The doctor had succeeded with a profound achievement while in the clutches of the otherworld. This made him different from the beings that inhabited this strange place; the shadows with vacant faces and absent expressions. After an incalculable amount of time, and with incredible persistence, he had fought against the gravitational pull intent on stealing his memories, and managed to maintain a sense of self.

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

The entire world is in parparinati (the belief of ‘I am doing’ in what are results of the non-Self), no one has seen Swa-parinati (the natural state of the Self). Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is verily the state of the absolute Self (Parmatma pad).

The essence of human life is to come into one’s nature of the Self (Soul), get awakened and remain only in ‘Self’.

The fact that health prevails most of the time in such a complex living structure is a small miracle that goes unnoticed by most people most of the time.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that ‘I died’. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.

The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’!

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.