Self Awareness Quotes
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
