Best roots & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9

“A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.”

Self Happens Loses Identity Roots Traditional Migrants

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.”

Inspirational Self Helping Spirit Individual Growth Self Help Roots Genuine All Smiles Genuine Smiles Bright Smiles

Author:Samuel Smiles

“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”

Knows Mind Ideas Self Facts Action Given Existence Consciousness Reflection Direct Roots Contact Observation Recognise Self Consciousness Inference

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.”

Soul Self Loses Return Roots Chains Sense Of Self Losing Yourself

Author:Rumi

“The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.”

Real Self Might Spiritual Life Is Suffering Path Dangerous Taught Understood Roots Attractive Poison Toxic Psychics Arrows Spiritual Path Organic Life

Author:Gary Snyder

“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”

“Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.”

Trying Years Persons Made Self Moments Prove Roots Lays Prison Tigers Flawed Self Made Trance Living Fully Radical Acceptance

Author:Tara Brach

“When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.”

“Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.”

Self Wisdom Motivational Power Roots Self Control Restraint Cautious Will Power Prudent Self Restraint Power And Control Self Power Controlling Power

Book:Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Source: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

“Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Self Running Beautiful Energy Emotion Emotional Roots Formulas Invoke Fear And Courage Your Beautiful Emotional Energy

Author:Judith Orloff

“Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.”

Writing Self Political Names Language Consciousness Roots Mediums Propaganda

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.”

“Come to the Root of the Root of your Self”

Self Roots Self Discovery

Book:Love is a Stranger

Source: Love is a Stranger

“Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.”

Self Religion Evil Liberty Morality Roots Deception Altruism Self Deception

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”

Feels Mind Two Self Sometimes Difficult Focus Depression Ethics Roots Breaths Crisis Illness Bones Mental Illness Phenomenon Overwhelming Counting Preventing Psychiatric

Author:Lauren Slater

“In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex psychology and history - observing a 'we' that, until recently, was viewed as plural, ahistorical, and nonindividuated.”

Source: The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

“Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.”

Self Games Winning Imagination Break Limits Roots Infinite Disappear Tennis Execution Break Through

Author:David Foster

“To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.”

Way Feels Looks Stills War Self Pain Remember Lying Night Water Sleep Rooms Blood Goes On Return Mountain Roots Window Wake Up Down And Green Trash Stairs Mixing

Author:Etel Adnan

“If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!”

Ifs Want Feels Stills Self Roots Deception Motive Tempted Self Deception

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

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