Quotes About Personal

To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

we have chosen to speak of spirituality ultimately as the way in which we live out our response to God. Unless we find this personal, transformational meaning in its fullest sense, the struggle for wholeness will remain unresolved. As Augustine put it in the first paragraph of his Confessions, 'God created us for a relationship with him and our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God.

Many rob themselves of intimacy with God because they choose to learn vicariously through someone else's study.

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

But if you want change, whether it's in your personal life or your business, there's really only one way—you have

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

but granted that it's nothing paradoxically enough beyond mere personal pride which tends to compel me to decline to admit i've died) seeing your bald intellect collywobbling on its feeble stem is believing science=(2b)?n herr professor m

Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.

You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego. But you can only be in a state of nonreactor if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense.

Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.

If the mystery of the cross becomes the inner form of this science, a living energy that allows the soul to be molded by what is received from this mystery, it turns into a science of the cross . On the contrary, excessive interior preoccupation with one's own personal concerns can develop in the course of life into a general indifference to things religious.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.