T Quotes
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“The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.”
“The self-righteously bitter cartoons that appear in sectarian magazines are fine if all you want to do is preach to the choir, but I believe you can reach a lot more people with humor.
(from an interview in Attitude, 2002)”
“The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that,’ thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)”
“The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“The self-serving ways of one that imperil others’ course would serve the unintended in unexpected ways, and that's the Goring Syndrome”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“The self-starvation cycle has been documented across time and cultures, including non-Western ones. In modern Western societies, concerns with fat and thinness are the main reason for weight loss and probably explain the moderate rise of Anorexia Nervosa incidence across the second half of the 20th century. However, cases of self-starvation with spiritual and religious motivations have been common in Europe at least since the Middle Ages (and include several Catholic saints, most famously St. Catherine of Siena). In some Asian cultures, digestive discomfort is often cited as the initial reason for restricting food intake, but the resulting syndrome has essentially the same symptoms as anorexia in Western countries.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“The self sustaining beauty that pushes the fears and uplifts to dream, to hope and to begin again. What defines it is its act of endurance, through the grueling seasons of life.....”
“The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.”
Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays
“The self that is self we imagined we were our whole lives. But we were never that self, not really. We were only a series of selves, living one role and then leaving it for another. And all the time convincing ourselves that there was no change. That we were always the same person, living the same life. One arc to a finish, not the stutter-stop improvisation that is our actual lives.”
“The self that represents me in society is a combination of what I am, what I think I am and what I pretend to be.”
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness. This is the non-metaphysical meaning of the idea of transcendence to which philosophers have so constantly resorted in their explanations of goodness. 'Good is a transcendent reality' means that virtue is the attempt to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is. It is an empirical fact about human nature that this attempt cannot be entirely successful.”
Source: The Sovereignty of Good
“The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine”
Source: Psychology and religion: West and East
“The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.”
Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child
“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”
“The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.”
Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
“The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God. Basically, the human and the God are two sides of the same coin. Or to be more specific, the human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.”
Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
“The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.”
“The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The 'self', which is nothing but thought, cannot contemplate its dissolution and invents the fiction of immortality, eternity. Who has ever seen or known eternity! It is a projection, just a fanciful notion. What we know is that everything is ephemeral, everything passes, and everything changes its form.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“The self which represents me in society is a combination of what I am, what I think I am and what I pretend to be.”
“The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a misguided consciousness. Without having faced or embraced the vertiginous depths beneath the precarious ground of its being, this self views itself as coherent and independent. I am here referring to the self who operates in clearly demarcated binaries and boundaries, the self who views God as distinct from the world, the other as separate from the "I," the spiritual as distinct from the physical. Conversely, the new self that emerges—if it does at all—from the abyss understands its nature not as an immutable substance but as multiple, fragmented, and always-in-becoming. In the abyss the old self is dissolved, emptied, abandoned, annihilated, lost, crushed, dismembered, shattered, and drowned.”
Source: The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.””
“The self you leave behind
is only a skin you have outgrown.
Don't grieve for it.
Look to the wet, raw, unfinished
self, the one you are becoming.
The world, too, sheds its skin:
politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.”
Source: Olive Street transfer
“The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.”
“The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.”
“the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
“The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.”
Source: Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
“The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.”
“The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.”
Source: Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Source: Tales of Power
“The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.”
“The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”
“The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.”
“The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.”
“The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.”
“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.”
Source: The good society
“The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.”
“The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.”
“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.”
“The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.”
Source: Act One: An Autobiography
“The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”
“The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand, not only does your body continue to work by this invisible hand, but every aspect of your life - emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually - is also programmed to thrive, is also programmed for self-organization and self-correction.”
“The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.”
“The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.”
Source: Shopgirl
“The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.”
“The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.”
Source: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]