Quotes About Self-awareness

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)

compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day.

Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?

He was so accustomed to being in the middle of the action it still took him a second to realize that they were waiting for him, Chase Lomax, to get out of the way. He couldn't help them? He'd hinder their rescue—a small woman and a skinny kid? Right. He would. Feeling unreasonably humiliated, he lifted his crutches and clunked his way out into the aisle.

Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

Life was so much easier before I had to worry about everyone else worrying', Irene muttered. 'It's called growing up, dear. It comes with staying alive.

I made mistakes. I listened to the wrong people and let them influence my decisions. No more.

Do you know what body armor says about a guy? It says he needs body armor.

We can only grow as big as our thoughts, we are defined by our thoughts, and we are the result of what we think about all day long.

If you don't like the mind you've got, change the thoughts in it for better ones and your mind will change all by itself.

Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.

Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

As I liked him less and less I became more and more like him. I felt trapped, didn't care for myself.

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can't look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up.

Chant to him: "An individual thinks for himself." Then roll that around in his head till it means: "If I didn't think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.