{"quotes":[{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":11967,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.","author":"Unarine Ramaru","tags":["advice","compelling","consideration","constructive-criticism","demean","demeaning","discernment","encourage","encouragement","examination","heart","individual","love","pure","rebuke","self-examination","sincerity","spirit"],"id":16234,"author_id":"Unarine+Ramaru"},{"text":"Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.","author":"Innocent Mwatsikesimbe","tags":["hypocrisy","life","people","self-examination"],"id":21381,"author_id":"Innocent+Mwatsikesimbe"},{"text":"Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world’s consciousness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["artistic-expression","autobiography","memoir","personal-essay","personal-essays","self-examination","self-expression","storytelling","writing","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":27877,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.","author":"Bill W.","tags":["acceptance","habit","honesty","patience","perseverance","self-examination","wisdom"],"id":41047,"author_id":"Bill+W."},{"text":"Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["condemn","condemnation","critical","escapism","judge","judgement","judgmental","justice","self-assessment","self-examination"],"id":42674,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"EGO means attachment to layers of our unexamined thoughts and illusions.We avoid self inquiry because it shatters our belief system and false image.","author":"Aditya Ajmera","tags":["awareness","ego","self-examination","thoughts"],"id":49158,"author_id":"Aditya+Ajmera"},{"text":"Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["attentiveness","contemplation","contemplation-of-life","hypothesis","hypothesizing","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-examination","self-growth","theories","theories-of-meaning","theorizing","thinking","thinking"],"id":51452,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I don't like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and I sift through all the disowned parts of who I am... It's an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, I need that release valve to open all the way...","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["baring-your-soul","being-broken-wide-open","being-vulnerable","emotions","enlightening-experiences","exposing-your-truth","feeling","honesty","inspirational","jaeda-dewalt","self-awareness","self-examination"],"id":65188,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}