Quotes About Self-awareness

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.

What is self? Self is a lotus bud slimed over in mud.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Our reaction to others does not define them, it defines us

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions

We can choose to continue with the existing reality, or we can choose to change the world we live in by learning, by evolving, by becoming conscious of our programs, and re-writing them as needed to create what we want. Simply, we cannot realize who we truly are by remaining who we have been. And so it is collectively. It is up to us to change ourselves. It is up to us to change the world.

What's going on out there is a projection of what's going on in here

A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.

When the child is allowed to experience the self as an individual with self-originating needs and goals, that child begins to assume responsibility for his or her own life and its demands. Allowance:

You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

Ask yourself why the question you chose seemed important. Then ask why the reason you just gave is important. and so on.

Instead, it is a group of subpersonalities, watched over by the protector/controller, that determines our feelings and behavior. Thus, we always have a vague fear that if the other person really knew what we were like, he or she would abandon us (even though we ourselves do not know what this mysterious "real" person is actually like).

f the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

If the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

Your Aware Ego will not remain with you at all times because it disappears each time your primary selves take over.

one of the primary issues in the evolution of consciousness is the discovery of these subpersonalities and how they operate within us.