You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.
It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.
Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.
When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
The Finn is the most watery person in Europe. . . Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.
Looking back six years ago when I had just come from 'The Office' to 'The Mindy Project' and what I was trying to say back then. I feel like we don't revisit our younger idealistic selves, you just get in this pattern of churning these episodes out. Now I was like, "Let's try and get in my mind back then," because my life personally has changed so much, too. I just thought, "What was I trying to say? And now can I make it look like it was all part of one larger story. "
We're all just memories of our future selves.
I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.
