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“Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.”

Long Life Is Fall Struggle Objects Simplicity Oneself Snow Layers Accumulation

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”

Way Trying Use Home Used Asks Games Names Language Objects Essence Originals Everyday Oneself Philosopher Metaphysics Propositions Metaphysical Everyday Use

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object”

Different Self Social Acting Environment Objects Theory Perspective Oneself Agents Rejects Conception Shifting Transforming Cognitive Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.”

Might Born Compassion Awareness Objects Weakness Weak Oneself Pity Inferiors

Book:A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice

Source: A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Knows Feels Should Writing Reason Body Age Objects Wind Bird Safety Wings Instinct Oneself Conviction Honestly Abundance Yield Compelling Feathers Daylight Seeming Migration

Book:A Naturalist's Life of New York

Source: A Naturalist's Life of New York

“I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.”

Way Writing Believe Ideas Stories Turns Grows Stuff Objects Paper Don't Believe Oneself Transformed

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.”

Way Giving Doe Problem Certain Goal Acting Steps Conditions Objects Relation Oneself Reacting

Author:Michel Foucault

“The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.”

Religious Objects Bird Salvation Oneself Beast Vegetarian Vegetarianism Austerity

Author:Ikkyu