{"quotes":[{"text":"Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.","author":"Suzy Davies","tags":["books","magic","perception","readers","reading","the-self","time-travel-other-worlds","transformation"],"id":2299,"author_id":"Suzy+Davies"},{"text":"Begin. . . Where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.","author":"Florence Falk","tags":["alone","art","clarity","lifestyle","living","loneliness","lonely","self-help","the-self","understanding","woman","women"],"id":3211,"author_id":"Florence+Falk"},{"text":"One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","bliss","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul","true-self"],"id":11048,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["identity","self-deception","the-self"],"id":13738,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goes, encounters only himself. All the processes of the earth and the universe have revealed themselves either as man-made or as potentially man-made. These processes, after having devoured, as it were, the solid objectivity of the given, ended by rendering meaningless the one over-all process which originally was conceived in order to give meaning to them, and to act, so to speak, as the eternal time-space into which they could all flow and thus be rid of their mutual conflicts and exclusiveness. This is what happened to our concept of history, as it happened to our concept of nature. In the situation of the radical world-alienation, neither history nor nature is at all conceivable. This twofold loss of the world— the loss of nature and the loss of human artifice in the widest sense, which would include all history, has left behind it a society of men who, without a common world which would at once relate and separate them, either live in desperate lonely separation or are pressed together into a mass. For a mass-society is nothing more than that kind of organized living which automatically establishes itself among human beings who are still related to one another but have lost the world once common to all of them.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["artifice","concept-of-history","history","lonely","man","nature","society","the-self"],"id":20479,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["know-yourself","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","self-realisation","self-realised","self-realization","self-realized","soul","soul-definition","soul-meaning","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul","who-am-i"],"id":35015,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.","author":"Chris Matakas","tags":["awareness","buddhism","spirituality","the-self"],"id":36726,"author_id":"Chris+Matakas"},{"text":"Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","religion","religions","religious","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","the-self","the-soul"],"id":37109,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["identity","labels","nationality","race","religion","stereotypes","the-self"],"id":37335,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","bliss","eternal","eternal-bliss","happiness","happy","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","self-realisation","self-realised","self-realization","self-realized","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul"],"id":39075,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}