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“Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.”

Trying Important Self Wisdom Lost Steps Buddhism Mindfulness Honestly Assessment Admitting Rationalize Self Assessment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.”

World Mind Self Steps Mystery Buddhism Billions Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness.”

Way Made Soul Self Feelings Light Purpose Lines Acting Consciousness Steps Path Plans One Way This Life Your Soul Purpose Of Life Way To Live Authentic Self True Life True Feelings

Author:Deborah King

“Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.”

Self Whole Problem Able Interest Common Steps Democracy Addresses Self Interest

Author:Eli Pariser

“THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.”

Knows Want Firsts Believe Self Action Desire Steps Events Following What You Want Objectives Fulfillment Encounters First Steps Constructs

Book:The Neville Goddard Collection

Source: The Neville Goddard Collection

“When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.”

Self Truth Steps Nine

Author:Lester Levenson

“Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.”

Self Can Do Steps Discovery Self Discovery Life And Death Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.”

Firsts Persons Self Grows Steps Ruins First Steps Restraint Suppression Self Restraint

Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.”

Mind Self Body Light Faces Turns Steps Originals Manifest Inward Mind And Body

Author:Dogen

“I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.”

People Want Has Beens Self Feelings Steps Proud Presses Ridiculous Satisfied Recognition Compare Realms Vans Step Up Self Recognition

Author:Emily Carr

“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

Feels Trying Humans Self Human Beings Steps Perfection

Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.”

Self Universe Individual Differences Steps Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.”

Way Should Self Steps One Way Generous Abandonment

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.”

Ifs Knows Should Firsts May Self Hands Powerful Steps Know How God Love First Steps

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.”

Should Firsts Self Lying Steps Achieve First Steps True Self Lying To Yourself

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.”

People Writing Self States Hands Next United Steps United States Wonderful Independence Historical Irony Mars Evident Declaration Declaration Of Independence Next Steps Pissed Off Colonists

Author:Eric Idle

“To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.”

Looks Self Eye Consciousness Steps Various Mysticism Viewpoints Detached

Author:Frederick Lenz

“imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.”

Firsts Believe Self Born Steps Creating First Steps True Self

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.”

Ideas Self Opportunity Change Steps Watches Minutes Frozen Great Opportunity

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.”

Self Whole Remember Effort Steps Progress Sacrifice Higher Ambition Standards Mark Painful Denial Length Ladders Self-denial Higher Standards

Book:Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

Source: Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

“acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.”

Ifs Want Art Self Steps Stage Acceptance Remains Self Respect

Author:Ethel Smyth

“I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.”

People World Self Felt Steps Normal Ordinary Satisfaction Flight Barriers Disability Outsiders Participating Elevators Normality Ordinary World Braille

Author:Nancy Mairs

“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

“Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!”

Self Form Steps Ready Abuse Step Up Indecision

Author:Suzanne Evans

“An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step”

“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.”

Ends Self Turns Steps Blessing Chaos Pity Boredom Self Pity Disillusionment Disillusion

Author:Manly Hall

“The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.”

Self Whole Spiritual Life Is Lying Purpose Found Steps Security Goes On Creating Tasks Meant To Be Wrestling Spiritual Life Transformed

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”

Way Self Body Form Death Found Goal Steps Dying Degrees Worthy Your Body Familiar Evident

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.”

“I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.”

Soul Self Shows Moving Forget Steps Honor My Soul Ceremony Alacrity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.”

Thinking Self Religion Sin Steps Unusual Examination Protestantism Self-examination Unusual Things

Author:Stendhal

“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”

Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Use Choices Given Wish Human Beings Brain Steps Destiny Awareness Keys Shapes Creatures Self Awareness Evolve True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!”

Ifs Trying Firsts Looks May Self Night Asks Stars Sides Steps Study Figures Planets Surprise Look Up

Author:Will Young

“It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.”

Ifs Knows Self Easy Grief Steps Path Truth Is Destruction Faults Alcohol Temptation Dull Self Destruction Allure

Author:Bill Jenkins

“It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.”

“You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.”

Ideas Self Grows Consciousness Steps Break Perception Conception Dogma Adopted Restriction

Author:Seth

“Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.”

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Author:Milla Jovovich

“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

“I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.”

Self Steps Path Taken Saws Expression Findings Ultimate Following Individuation Exponents

Author:Carl Jung

“Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.”

Self Steps Offers Reflection Streams Self Reflection

Author:Donald Kuspit

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.”

Firsts Self Helping Use Names Steps Groups Self Help Accidents Redemption Ritual Construction First Steps Wiping Out

Author:Walter Kirn

“A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.”

Littles Self Running Certain Steps Self Esteem Amount Add Esteem Bounce

Author:George W. Bush

“Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.”

Firsts Self Steps Acceptance Building First Steps Unconditional Unconditional Acceptance Positive Self Positive Self Image

Author:Nido R Qubein

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