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“Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.”

Self Reality Form Mindfulness Labels Contracts Rescue Transcendence Loopholes

Author:Diane Ackerman

“The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.”

Self Form Desire Attention Objects Weak Vanity Dread

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“Self-control is only courage under another form.”

Self Form Self Control

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.”

People Doe Self Matter Form Culture Individual Force Born Cases Society Civilization Mass Originals Possession Enormous Delusion Plastic Coast Endowment

Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE

“Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.”

May Important Self Feelings Able Form Turns Successful Debate Traditional Censorship Emergencies Dissent Disloyalty Self Censorship

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?”

“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.”

Thinking Different Self Form Expression Release Surfing Self Expression

Author:Jon Foreman

“Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.”

World Way Mind Heart Self Helping Form Culture Religious Teach Who You Are Prepared Heart And Mind

Author:Richard Rohr

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser