Quotes About Self-awareness

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."1 —NEVILLE

remember to include yourself when dispensing kindness and nonjudgment.

You are behaving as a fool if you look outside of you for an explanation of how you should feel or what you should do. Taking credit as well as responsibility for yourself is the first step to eliminating this erroneous zone. Be your own hero.

experience life on the active side of infinity, knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being

In order to master this kind of fulfillment, you'll need to repeat endlessly that your mind really is your own and that you are capable of controlling your own feelings. The remainder of this book will be an effort to help you in your personal goals by having you begin precisely that repetition of such themes: you can choose, and your present moments are yours for the enjoying—if you decide to be in charge of you.

if you were a no-limit person, you'd understand that you've done everything in life the way you have because you were supposed to do it—otherwise you wouldn't have done it.

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being having a temporary human experience, rather than the other way around.

see yourself as whole and complete just as you are.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they have control over you.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. If you are in charge of your own emotions, you don't have to choose self-defeating reactions.

The truth, as I see it, is that everything you think, say, and do is a choice—and you don't need to think, speak, or act as you've done for your entire life. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. Right now, while reading this book

As long as you feel that you have to do anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship, and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous zone.

seek to acquaint yourself with the limitless creative energy that's a part of you

Keep in mind that you have no responsibility to make others happy. Others make themselves happy. Thus, you may truly enjoy the company of another, but if you feel it is your mission to make them happy, then you are a dependent who will also feel gloom when the other person is down. Or even worse, you'll feel as though you let him down. You are responsible for your own emotions and so is everyone else. No one has control over your feelings, except you.

If I don't have a story, I won't have to live up to it.

avoid the extremes, the excesses, and the extravagant, and know that all is unfolding perfectly, even if your thoughts tell you that it's imperfect.

Don't try to delude yourself into believing that you enjoy something that you find distasteful. You can dislike something and still not have to be angry about it.

Get rid of the expectations you have for others. When the expectations go away, so will the anger.

You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt.

Your greatness won't be found in a classroom; an apprenticeship; a teacher; or flattering comments from well-meaning family members, friends, or lovers. It is within you.

Living by Your Inner Light

You can't control the outside world but you can control what happens inside.