Quotes About Self-awareness

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.

Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.

Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

So the catch is that you are programmed to choose the ego over Essence until a time comes in your evolution for the realization of the truth to surface.

The ego just makes the mistake of looking for happiness in the wrong places. In fact, the egoic mind is the only thing in the way of happiness. It is the problem, not the solution. When the mind is quiet, all there is, is love,

You drop your mental baggage because you see that it offers nothing of value but only takes you away from the experience of the beautiful being that you are.

The ego lies in wait for the opportunity to list someone's supposed faults (according to the ego's conditioning). So it's never long before the judgments and reservations begin to flow.

We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.

If we believe our thoughts, then they define us and determine our experience of life, how we feel, and what we do. We are, in many respects, a puppet to our conditioning, to our thoughts and feelings—when we believe them. When we are identified with them and believe them, we are at the mercy of them. They run the show.

As soon as you see you are ego identified, you are outside of it and you have some choice—to either reidentify with the ego or not.

If loving something means giving it our attention (and it does), then most of us are in love with our thoughts. The irony is that this lover doesn't love us back but, instead, gives us a lot of negative messages and poor advice. In short, this lover makes us unhappy. What can explain our devotion to such a poor lover?

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.

Lo que poseo parece ser mío, pero soy poseído siempre por aquello que tengo.

Nessuna sensazione è più angosciosa della pietà che un uomo prova di sé stesso.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Every issue, belief, attitude or assumption is precisely the issue that stands between you and your relationship to another human being and between you and yourself.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam.

It's just what you're stuck with, the lousy furniture you can't change. The educated me knows hell's nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit. The other me knows I'm going there. There must be a dozen mes these days, taking turns looking the other way." "It's the postmodern solution," I said. "Controlled multiple personality disorder. Pick a fiction and allocate it an aspect of yourself.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.