Quotes About Self-awareness

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

No matter how much you tell yourself you're over someone, your heart knows the truth

What a filthy mind you have. Can't imagine why you're single with a brain as dirty as the one you've got.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants.

She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her. "Huh?" we'd said. "Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.

the window was down and my music was blasting and i was like, i am the sun on my skin. i am the clouds in the sky. i'm everything i've ever seen or done or felt or heard, and one day i will be gone.

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds.

Having a child does not change you so much as amplify whatever is unresolved.

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.

Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The magickian learns that his or her life is nothing more than a story, usually written by authority figures in his or her life. The magickian's task then becomes to take up the magickal tools of pen and paper and to take the job of 'author' away from 'authority' and to re-write his or her life.

Dive right into the Heart of Blame and leave your titles, your imagined "position" in the tekke, your sense of being "special," and other subtle ways that try to communicate to people that you are 'spiritual'.

The dervishes (or Sufis) have a saying, 'The dervish is the mirror of the dervish.' In other words, the universe is the mirror of the magickian's unconscious. Remember that face and you will never be dismayed for all is your realm to rule. For all will be plain to you. Whatever you experience will always and only be yourself. Whatever you change within your unconscious will always and only be the universe.

People blame God for this or that, when instead they should be facing what is inside them.