Quotes About Self-awareness

and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there's no such thing as a free starvation), and that in the meantime the world had filled up with other children who hadn't wasted all their strength on just surviving but had simply grown and opened and deepened, and that only in her innocent eyes could I still be considered worth anything.

Of course. And you said I was one of a kind, and that if I cried 'cause of them, then you see it upside down, and it's like I'm laughing 'cause of me.

Vorrei che tu potessi ricordare come ci si sente quando si è donna, e come ci si sente quando non si è né uomo né donna. Solo "essere", prima di tutto, prima delle definizioni, dei pronomi personali, delle parole e dei generi. Forse, in questo modo, potresti anche arrivare, quasi per caso, alla possibilità primordiale di essere me

Can't help the way I'm made. Don't want to help it, either. It's gotten me this far. As

I was amazed at how many fools I ran into until I noticed the common denominator in all those interactions: me." Why

Chuang Tzu had long ago written words that now expressed Jung's predicament: My dependence is like that of the snake on his skin. How can I tell why I do this, or why I do that?56

What is 'healthy' for one dominant ego-image at a particular stage of life may be decidedly unhealthy for the nascent ego-image of the next stage of life.

Naturally I compensated my inner insecurity by an outward show of security, or—to put it better—the defect compensated itself without the intervention of my will. That is, I found myself being guilty and at the same time wishing to be innocent.22

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

It's a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why.

Keep up self-definition and you'll never be apparent.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

This attitude of judging each other by our "jobs" is to ignore and deny who we really are.

If you are offended at anything and have your emotions stressed as a result, it is you who have chosen to be offended. It's a thought form, a state of mind, which you are in control of.

Violent people are those who hate themselves and instead of looking inside to find the cause of that self dislike, they thrash out at someone else.

Keep looking. I'd love to be able to start over again fresh. I'd love to look in that other person's face and see nothing but a clear reflection. Maybe this time I'd be more careful not to damage it.

name's Ma Daiyu. I'm sure she's heard

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.' "Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.

We can ask ourselves each day, how has my "inner person" been given the opportunity to speak and act today?