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“There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.”

Ifs Self Problem Existence Depends Discovering True Self

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.”

“I create my social existence by earning and spending.”

Self Social Existence Spending Earning

Author:Mason Cooley

“A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.”

Children Self Reason Hours Existence Democracy Economic Labor Workers Justification Wages Stretching Child Labor Serfs

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.”

Self Enough Interest Existence Raises Sufficient Self Sufficient

Author:W. H. Auden

“We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.”

Mind Soul Self Body Existence Aspect Independent Deny Your Body Permanent Mind And Body Impermanence

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.”

Men Self Facts Feelings Form Deals Secret Existence Doubt Dread Inability Unworthy Inferiority Self-doubt

Author:John Galt

“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”

Ifs World Feels Self Black White Existence Illusion Fundamentals Structure Stranger Fabric Deep Down Flukes Probation

Author:Alan Watts

“Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!”

“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.”

Thinking Should Humans Self States Nature Human Beings Existence Support Building Architecture Interfere Ecology Ecological Ecosystems Sustaining Stasis

Author:Ken Yeang

“If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.”

Ifs Self Motivational Universe Existence Break Sun Forever Rocks Ignorance Pure Moon Absolutes Down And Blessed Dust Chains Bliss Delusion Lions Cages Annihilation Indestructible

Book:Jnana Yoga

Source: Jnana Yoga

“In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.”

World Persons Self Helping Bits Existence Growing Late Foolish Tiny Comic Growing Old Growing Older Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.”

Thinking World Feels Kind Self Helping Fall Natural Walks Existence Steps Ocean Deceiving Natural World Numb Amnesia Immensity Self Centeredness Centeredness Summoning

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.”

“No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.”

Self Existence Taken Talent Kings Unhappiness Road Not Taken

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.”

Way Self Home Body Moving Memories My Own Existence Expression Longing Metaphor Your Body Rhythm My Way Estates Our Memories Ecstatic Landlord

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.”

Giving Self Today Party Existence Rights Depends Capitalism Organization Workers Chinese Enterprise Labour Communist Capitalist Domination Communist Party

Author:Jacques Ranciere

“This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.”

Ifs Mind Self Certain Belief Causes Existence Trouble Divine Depends Finals Seeking Gods Will True Nature Divine Wisdom

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.”

Men World Humans Self Home Force Cities Existence Modern Human Nature Creating Gains And Love Structure Possession Deeper Missions Chiefs Visible Civics Resumes Modern Man Love And Nature

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.”

Humans Has Beens Art Self Government Race Existence Principles Industry Self Love Property Active Human Race Wages Exclusive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.”

Littles Different Self Matter Whole Form Universe Names Space Existence Fine Various Gross Appearing Causation Different Names

Book:Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is... a lie.”

People Way Mind Stills Self Lying Existence Personality Flattering Caricatures Still Life

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.”

Two Self States Existence Achieve Emotional Communication Unity Partners Subjectivity Ambiguous Intoxication Passivity

Book:The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir

“I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.”

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