Quotes About Self-awareness

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.

He who knows that he is free is free; he who knows that he is bound is bound. What is the end and aim of life? None, because I know that I am the Infinite.

Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Most of our difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us, instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

When he first began to abuse me, I thought, "I am going to be angry". Anger was one thing, and I was another; but when I became angry, I was anger. These feelings have to be controlled in the germ, the root, in their fine forms, before even we have become conscious that they are acting on us.

It is a well-known psychological fact that those who are ever ready to abuse others cannot bear the slightest touch of criticism from others.

why, after all this sex, am I still ashamed about sex? Why, when I look at a woman, does the guilt follow so quickly upon the desire that the two have become indistinguishable?

It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.