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the self
«One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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absorbed, gradually, intellect, the self, trained, train of thought, tranquillity
«Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
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Love
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delusion, have sex, justify, justifying, manufacture, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, take to, the self
«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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Heroism
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accounted, cheerfully, dangers, denials, heroism, human soul, humble, latent, mutilation, mutilations, privation, privations, renounced, renounces, renouncing, sicknesses, sufferings, the self, The Sickness, toils, undertaken, veterans
«Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Happiness
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belongs, self, self sufficient, sufficient, the self
«Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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enlightenment, force, knowing, mastering, needs, requires, self, strength, the Enlightenment, the self, wisdom
«Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.»
«Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Knowledge
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atoms, characteristics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, subtleties, The Mother, the self