Self Will Quotes - Page 4

• Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

  Martha Beck

  Change, Thinking, Self

  "Ever Wonder Why Butterflies Don’t Chill With Caterpillars?" by Dr. Samineh I. Shaheem, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2015.

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• And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU will gradually be replaced by LOVE. If you have kids, that will be a huge moment in your process of self-diminishment. You really won't care what happens to YOU, as long as they benefit. That's one reason your parents are so proud and happy today. One of their fondest dreams has come true: you have accomplished something difficult and tangible that has enlarged you as a person and will make your life better, from here on in, forever.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Love You, Kids

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.42, A&C Black

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• For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Self

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• Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

  Rumi

  Humble, Self, World

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• When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, What Matters, Self

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• A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Self, World

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Patterns

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• Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Self, Next

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• The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Reality, Men, Rocks

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Self, Heaven

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