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“I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.”

Thinking Self Versions Things To Do Productive Best Self Be Your Best

Author:Seth Godin

“No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?”

Doe Self Philosophy Certain Values Fall Left Party Economic Students Wings Champion Libertarianism Centre Right Wing Left Wing Self Reliant Economic Value

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .”

World Kind Self Magic Theory Regard Strive Physics Traditional Consistent Quests Manipulate

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.”

Self Culture Mood Contemporary Celebration Dominant American Culture

Author:William A. Henry III

“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

People Self Individual Energy Groups Identity Pride Ought Succeed Connections Performances Regard Appeals Clans Group Identity

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

Way Ends Self Dies Accepting Despair Anxiety Rage Surrender Enormous Ecstasy Submit Another Way Will Power Freedom And Happiness

Author:Ellen Willis

“To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.”

Made Self Stories Half Consciousness Conditions Expression Historical Satisfaction Impulse Personal Life Erotic Psychoanalysis Self Consciousness Half The Story

Author:Ellen Willis

“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.”

Men Way Self Helping Found Winning Boys Economic Self Help Hero Office Fortune Strive Portraits Gallery Bourgeois Vigorous Romanticism Prototype Philistines Utilitarianism Plutocracy

Author:John Carroll

“The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.”

Giving Self States Order Christ Moral Enemy Bears Independence Affair Self Respect Contempt Tolerate Emperor

Author:John Carroll

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other but never to the point of self-sacrifice.”

Men Needs Heart Self Force Sacrifice Primaries Transfers Self Sacrifice Forsake

Book:Women & madness

Source: Women & madness

“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”

Self Lost Social Causes Economic Conflict Analysis Serving Self Serving

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.”

Self Results Behavior Argument Self Defeating Behavior

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.”

Ifs Humans Self States Seems Found Nations Levels Numbers Alive Heard Modern Capable Destruction Structure Surprise Persistence Folly Genes Large Numbers Human Society Self Destruction

Author:Lewis Thomas

“All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.”

Men Book Real Self Mankind Sacred Perseverance Ancient Seeking Denial Persistence Lasting Scholar Jewels Hope And Faith Miners Self-denial Nuggets Precious Jewels

Author:Max Muller

“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”

Self Mankind True Self Service To Mankind Best Service

Author:Asaram

“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”

Love Trying Self Hate Universe Names Awareness Self Love Calling Oneself Conviction Convinced Frustration Warmth Formulas Impossibility Condemnation Love Everyone

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”

“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source: The Lost World

“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'”

Should Self Feelings Past Form Mines Materials Insight

Author:Gautama Buddha

“'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.”

Self Names Insight

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Patriotism is idolatry of the self.”

Self Responsibility Idolatry Self Responsibility

Author:Simone Weil

“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.”

Self Moments Reality Law Pleasure Divine Masters Essentials Seeking Worldly Divine Law Worldly Things

Author:Asaram

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.”

Heart Self Reality Lying Interest Clear Fundamentals Unity Connected Dues Self Interest Interconnectedness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

Firsts Self Order Pleasure Virtue Mankind Degrees Destruction Aesthetic Alienation

Author:Jerry Mander

“Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.”

Self Problem Wisdom Understanding Perfect Seeking Capability Dilemma Self Understanding

Author:Adi Da

“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”

May Self Wisdom Spiritual Loss Existence Anxiety Threat Psychological Meaninglessness

Author:Paul Tillich

“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.”

Ifs Thinking Self Shows Records Couple Healthy Obsessed Things To Do Self Obsessed

Author:Nick Lowe

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.”

“The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.”

Self Moving Righteous Skeptic Self Righteous

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”

Self Care Self Esteem Praise Esteem Skeptical

Book:Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)

Source: Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)

“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”

World Self Whole Community Responsibility Doors Society Fronts Positive Clean Whole World Teamwork Vegan Cooperation

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.”

Believe Long Doe Ideas Self Lasts Belief Given Quality Authority Argument Claims Fundamentals Bounds Superiors Range Liberalism Resorts Conservatism Power Of Ideas

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”

World Self Lying Literature Deceit Shameful Fables

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“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

“Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.”

Self Enemy Progress Conceit Enemy Of Progress

Author:Bion of Borysthenes

“I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.”

Self Body Girl Three Pages Conscious Shame Frustrated Self Conscious

Author:Susannah Constantine

“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”

Self Moments Names Sex Bits Sleep Pleasure Pride Demand Vanity Demon Broads Autonomous Prowess Undefined

Author:J. V. Cunningham

“We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.”

Knows World Made Self Given Contrary Bitter Righteous Rivals Self Righteous Acknowledgment Know It All

Author:John C. Danforth

“Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.”

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power

“I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get fed-up with the self-deception that all this fantastic food is the whole point of life.”

People Believe Self Whole Fantastic Deception Feds Self Deception Fed Up

Author:Gudrun Ensslin

“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”

Self My Own Virtue Grace Bears Miracle Sacred Affection Witness Lifts Tenderness Emergence Sanctify Improbability

Author:Ursula Goodenough

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