Self Awareness

"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see ...

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You ...

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” - Susan Ertz ...

"If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks." -Sidney Lanier ...

“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people. - Tom Masson ...

"We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our “biography,” our partners, ...

"How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny ...

"To be nobody but yourself in a world doing it's best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting" - E. E. Cummings ...

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."                    - Ludwig van Beethoven ...

“...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird ...