Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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