Quotes About Self-awareness

The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you'd overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.

My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you. Do you understand that?

My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.

in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.

If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

To be good, you must learn to be yourself at the bargaining table.

The best way to fight this is to recognize it, name it, and refuse to go along with it.

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

Society can be a bitch." "And is by no means always right. Society can't know you like you know yourself. So don't let society be the judge of your actions. Only you can judge you.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

The Work is about making personality passive, a servant rather than a master.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

Most of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others of the being-impulse 'astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to notice it on the faces of those around.

Every man comes into the world like a clean sheet of paper, and then the people and circumstances around him begin vying with each other to dirty this sheet and cover it with writing... Gradually the sheet is dirtied, and the dirtier with so-called "knowledge" the sheet becomes, the cleverer the man is considered to be... And the dirty sheet itself, seeing that people consider its "dirt" as merit, considers it valuable.

To awaken means to realize one's nothingness, that is, to realize one's complete and absolute mechanicalness, and one's complete and absolute helplessness... So long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself.

There are two kinds of suffering - conscious and unconscious. Only a fool suffers unconsciously.