identity

"Be yourself, but always your better self."

"A ‘good’ style is one which can communicate through signs a certain inner state symptomatic of a certain taste ."

"All ritual has a notable tendency to reduce itself to a rehearsal of formulas."

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there."

"Everything is what you make of it, even yourself."

"I stopped taking drugs when I realized that pot smelled bad and LSD trips were becoming like TV reruns. I had had enough inner journeys — I felt I knew myself well enough, thank you."

"The root cause of the threat we face is the extremist ideology itself."

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

"When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of the prenatal state. The more he is taken care of…"

"in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak."

"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

"Presence is a state of inner spaciousness."

"For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him."

"Peter Newman: Go fuck yourself. Thank you. Good night."

"Each plea must stand or fall by itself."

"I lost all respect for him and myself, and lived in a nightmare."

"He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself."

"I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense."

"Awakening brings its own assignments, unique to each of us, chosen by each of us. p. 417"