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“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.”

Self Lasts Behinds Wagons Self Contained

Author:Kenneth Williams

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

Needs Should Self House Behinds Brain Materials Stones Meetings Ghost Encounters Host Interiors Midnight Chamber Concealed Confronting Corridors Lonesome Surpassing Abbey

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Self Answers Behinds Poverty Dare Ecstatic Love Dare

Author:Anne Carson

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!”

Mind Self Spiritual Behinds Letting Go Crosses Empty Finals Cease Bridges Looking Back Behind You Neutrality

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’”

Ifs Said Book Self Whole Helping Purpose Behinds Self Help Defeat Bookstores Self Help Books Help Book

Author:Brian Kiley

“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.”

World Looks Self Facts Political Process Religious Behinds Foundation Disaster Satisfied Realising Arrogant Creeds Uneasy Dissolution

Author:John Buchan

“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.”

Self Passion Realizing Behinds Sacrifice Exercise Elements Glory Seeking Extremes Selfish Selfless Addict Self Sacrifice Renunciation Misers Abnegation Chasers

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”

“How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.”

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.”

Needs Self Success Behinds Attitude Careers Buddhism Succeed Negative Strings About Yourself Unlikely Behind You Negative Attitude Buoys

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.”

Should Mind Self Behinds Wall Return Leaving Discrimination Contemplation Stable

Author:Bodhidharma

“The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.”

World Way Self Seems Order Force Behinds Cases Influence Defense Chosen Mask Devices Mechanism Veils Protective Reacting Defense Mechanisms

Author:John Randolph Price

“The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.”

Self Form Desire Effort Behinds Edges Arise

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.”

Trying Self My Own Views Behinds Too Much Regard Shoulders Twists Self-importance

Book:Braided Lives

Source: Braided Lives

“Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.”

Mean Self Behinds Towns Mask Small Town Living In A Small Town

Book:The Four-Gated City

Source: The Four-Gated City

“Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.”

Important Self Lost Behinds Break Plans Creation Scales Chains Gaps Shells Insects Moss Racks Rue

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.”

Ifs Art Self Actors Behinds Havens Objects Paper Mediums Painter Canvas Self Centered

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”

Self Secret Behinds Self Love Empty Blind Glasses Vanity Transparent Lifting Prodigals Empty Heads

Author:Horace

“I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.”

Real Self Wanted Voice Behinds Rocks Personality Rock Music Cover Ups

Author:Ariel Pink

“I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I’m on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.”

Ifs Want Trying Self Matter Body Earth Remember Fall Lines Behinds Treats Temples Our Thoughts My Thoughts

Author:Marianne Williamson

“my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.”

Littles Self Home Behinds Bed Shadow Lazy Sleepy

Book:A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)

“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.”

World Self Bigs Force Lines Behinds Cases Projects Self Confidence Islamic Secular Lacking Dominant Vacuums Resisting Unsure Islamists

Author:Tariq Ali

“Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.”

Thinking Self Running Lost Behinds Awareness Activity Possession Cease Serving Autonomous Self Serving

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.”

“Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Self Behinds Poverty Dare Love Dare

Author:Anne Carson

“When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music.”

“Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.”

Needs Littles Self Spiritual Walks Behinds Technology Development Civilization Moon Surface Repeats Spiritual Wisdom Arrogant Bigots Repeating History

Author:Mary Summer Rain

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