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Letter "T" » the self
«One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.»
«Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.»
«Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.»
«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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About:
Heroism
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Keywords:
accounted,
cheerfully,
dangers,
denials,
heroism,
human soul,
humble,
latent,
mutilation,
mutilations,
privation,
privations,
renounced,
renounces,
renouncing,
sicknesses,
sufferings,
the self,
The Sickness,
toils,
undertaken,
veterans
«Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.»
«Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient»
«Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength»
Author: Lao Tzu
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
enlightenment,
force,
knowing,
mastering,
needs,
requires,
self,
strength,
the Enlightenment,
the self,
wisdom
«I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.»
«Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
covers,
desert,
discerned,
discerns,
garment,
identities,
identity,
loose,
nakedness,
robed,
Robes,
the self
«Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.»