Quotes About Self-awareness

We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. If we're feeding our suffering while we're walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present. We're not living our lives.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

The second element of true love is compassion. Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief. You can transform your own suffering and help transform the suffering of the other person with the practice of mindfulness and looking deeply.

We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us.

Anger is rooted in our lack of understanding of ourselves and of the causes, deep-seated as well as immediate, that brought about this unpleasant state of affairs. Anger is also rooted in desire, pride, agitation, and suspicion. The primary roots of our anger are in ourselves. Our environment and other people are only secondary.

Admonish yourself strongly. Scrutinize yourself deeply.

COMPASSION The second element of true love is compassion. Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief. You can transform your own suffering and help transform the suffering of the other person with the practice of mindfulness and looking deeply.

Everyone knows that blaming and arguing never help; but we forget.

We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy.

When we cannot handle our suffering, we spew forth our frustration and pain onto those around us. We are victims of our own suffering, but because we do not know how to handle it, we hurt others while we are in pain.

Do not be concerned with what others have or have not done. Observe your own actions and inactions.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

People ask me, "Why do you do walking meditation?" The best answer I can give is, "Because I like it.

It is easy to see the flaws of others, hard to see one's own. One exposes flaws of others, yet hides one's own flaws.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.

As long as we're rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there's no point in talking about loving and accepting others.

We provoke each other to do more of what we say we don't like about the other!

no problem could be solved if individuals were not willing to address how they themselves were part of the problem.

This book is about the difference between a self-focused inward mindset and an others-inclusive outward mindset. It will help you become more outward in your work, your leadership, and your life. It will guide you in building more innovative and collaborative teams and organizations. And it will help you see why you like many of the people you do and what you can do to become more like them.

When people focus on themselves rather than on their impact, lots of activity and effort get wasted on the wrong things.

when I betray myself," Yusuf answered, "I create within myself a new need—a need that causes me to see others accusingly, a need that causes me to care about something other than truth and solutions, and a need that invites others to do the same in response.

Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them.

Self-deception actually determines one's experience in every aspect of life.