Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
-Thomas Albert “Tom” Wilson
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.