Quotes About Self-awareness

We have discovered, however, that there is remarkably little choice in the world. Unless we awaken to the consciousness process, the vast majority of us are run by the energy patterns with which we are identified or by those which we have disowned.

Unfortunately, having read about disowned selves, you cannot bask in the sunshine of moral superiority for too long.

Orang yang paling cerdas di muka bumi ini adalah orang yang tahu bagaimana menjadi orang yang bahagia.

I hope you'll stay. I hope you'll stay. But I would leave me too, if I could.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.

if we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward.

Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, "There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.

Hz ?sa ?öyle der: "Kendini yüceltenler alçalt?l?r, kendini alçaltanlar ise yüceltilir

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Cele mai multe dintre tensiunile si frustrarile noastre provin din nevoia compulsiva de a juca rolul unei persoane care nu suntem noi.

In the mother's smile, it dawns on him that there is a world into which he is accepted and in which he is welcome, and it is in this primordial experience that he becomes aware of himself for the first time.

Happy I'm stupid. You're smart. I was wrong. You were right. You're the best. I'm the wrost. You're very good-looking. I'm not very attractive.

Happy If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass.

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others.

Remember, you are your own worst enemy.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.