Quotes About Self-awareness

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. Hazrat Ali

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.

Denial and affirmation are games which people play. There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust. (Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Who is the wrong person to criticise? You

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

There is one kind of man worse than a boastful man: a complaining one.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Knowledge of yourself may involve, if we are learning at the present time, a knowledge of the way of thinking of your society and to realise that you are probably its product, and that this knowledge can be attained in fact by such anthropological and psychological observations made by the Sufis in the course of their teaching how to pursue new and more promising extra perspectives.