Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.