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“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.”

Writing Mind May Has Beens Stills Book Different Next Difficult Achievement Conscious Limitation Irrational Refrain Fulfilment

Author:Iris Origo

“I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.”

Knows Persons Evil Consciousness Broken Conscious Weakness Shadow Limitation Good And Evil Good Person

Author:John Bradshaw

“That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.”

May Power Exercise Conscious Limitation

Author:William Howard Taft

“I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.”

My Own Consciousness Conscious Limitation

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.”

World Should Whole Humanity Civilization Conscious Ideals Historical Worthy Limitation Stable

Book:Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization

Source: Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.”

World Mind Spiritual Purpose Break Wonderful Projects Conscious Extraordinary Inspired Limitation Finding Yourself Dormant Higher Purpose Your Purpose In Life Wonderful World

Author:Patanjali

“There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.”

People Ifs World Believe Humans May Persons Pain Easy Human Beings Fine Conscious Connections And Love Profound Harm Limitation If You Believe Disconnection Deep Connections

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.”

Ifs Years Humans Wells Force Human Beings Known Materials Higher Conscious Limitation Poison Acquire Have Faith Spheres Well Known Antidote Dominion Power Over Others

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.”

Ifs Knows Soul Moments Order Fall Opportunity Grows Understanding Accepting Struggle Eternal Conscious Gains Caught Limitation Traps Worthless

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”

“This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.”

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.”

Mean Self Reality Meditation Awareness Conscious Discovery Recognition Limitation Imperfection Expansion True Self Bondage Transcendental Conscious Awareness

Author:Sri Chinmoy