Quotes About Self-awareness

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

I am only human, although I regret it.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.