Quotes About Self-awareness

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 fact 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.

Ultimately, the mirror reflects our mortality; when we gaze in the mirror, we gaze at a skeleton.

When we fear something, when we are faced with the frightening unknown, this is a call to take notice that our fear, this unknown, contains wisdom that will make you much stronger. People are terrified of themselves, and often turn to external means and techniques with the intention of controlling their outer lives, creating the false belief that all is well. If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

Each human being contains the Essence within himself or herself, but the knowledge remains latent in most people.

If you look at a person and see a monster, know that you are being shown a monster lurking in your own dungeon.

The way to become a REALIZED person does not so much lie in doing good things, which of course we all should do, but in coming to some kind of understanding with the Dark, with the Shadow.

Most people, by the time they are grown, have blocked so many feelings that they have lost touch with themselves in ways they do not even recognize.

Therefore, the work you must do to rid yourself of a Mind Parasite, is to stop feeding it your anger, jealousy, fear, sadness, shame, guilt and embarrassment.

Doing magick without knowing oneself is like driving a car with the emergency brake on.

The observer is one and the mirrors are many.

These individuals need to see that as long as they continue to choose to please others at their own expense, they will be trapped. They need to discover how they try to control other people's responses by being the "good boy" or "nice girl" for them. They need to find the courage to give up that control by being frank and honest with people and allowing them to respond as they will.

In summary, to reestablish agency, a NARM therapist explores with clients how they are contributing to their own suffering—how they may be consciously or unconsciously instrumental in creating their own distress as adults.

The tendency to brood and ruminate is typical of this survival style. These individuals ruminate after personal encounters, berating themselves about whether they did or said the right thing, chastising themselves for any "mistakes" they feel they made in the interaction, wondering if they said the right thing or hurt the person's feelings.

The challenge for Attunement individuals is to learn how to attune to their own needs, to express them appropriately, and to tolerate more charge, fulfillment, expansion, and aliveness.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of every human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?

It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare into a mirror and smile at myself, just to remember what one looked like.