A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.
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.
A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.
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.
We are not here to fit in. . . we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. . . we are here to become more and more ourselves.
All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.
Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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.
The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
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.
