It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
Any human being has private thoughts.
You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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