If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Self Help is a notoriously crowded market, but I believe that I've successfully differentiated myself in a few ways. For one, most demographic data shows that millennials think/act/see the world differently, and I don't think there's much personal development stuff out there that caters to millennial attitudes and experiences very well.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.
Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that.
I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
