#Self

"The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"

"Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others."

"Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light."

"There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization)."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."

"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."

"The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools."

"You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about."

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself."

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."

"المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر"

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress."

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."

"Don't hate the media; become the media."

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."