Quotes About Self-awareness

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Kendi ay?b?n? örtmek isteyen ba?kalar?n?n yüzüne kara çalar.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

weaknesses—the tendency to get lost in analysis.

In the identity model3 of decision making, we essentially ask ourselves three questions when we have a decision to make: Who am I? What kind of situation is this? What would someone like me do in this situation?

self-evaluation involves interpretation, and that's where the Elephant intrudes.

You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options. • You analyze your options. But the confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving information. • You make a choice. But short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one. • Then you live with it. But you'll often be overconfident about how the future will unfold.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster."[1]

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and

When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others.

And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years.

Something had happened as I lay in the field, watching the sky, an understanding that I couldn't control the lives of others—but neither could they control mine.

Anything that makes us forget our true selves is a trap, princess—even something we love or define as beautiful.

Others see you as you see yourself.

I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

How little we know our own reputations, I thought with a bitter smile.

I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

much. I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Avoid intense anger or hatred. Intense negative emotions rupture the protective webs, thereby attracting and enabling foreign intruders or negative elementals to overwhelm the person. As a result, the person becomes temporarily "insane" or "possessed" and does very bad things.

When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness.