Quotes About Self-awareness

Nikada ne možete biti ono što niste. Možete biti samo ono što jeste i to je sve. A upravo ste ovoga trenutka ono što jeste i to bez ikakva napora.

Ono što vjerujete o sebi projicirate na druge ljude i to je ono što drugi vjeruju o vama. Dakako, i oni se prema vama ponašaju u skladu s tim, što samo daje snagu vašem uvjerenju da niste vrijedni. A što je istina? Istina je da jeste vrijedni: svatko je vrijedan.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Nothing other people do is because of you.

Bir savaÅŸç? fark?ndal??a sahiptir. Bu çok önemlidir. SavaÅŸta olduÄŸumuz için zihnimizin disipline ihtiyaç duyduÄŸunun da fark?nda olur. Bu bir askerin disiplini deÄŸil, bir savaÅŸç?n?n disiplini olmal?d?r. Asker disiplininde d??ar?dan birileri bize ne yapmam?z gerektiÄŸini söyler, savaÅŸç? disiplini ne olursa olsun kendimiz olmay? gerektirir.

The first step toward personal freedom is awareness. We need to be aware that we are not free in order to be free. We need to be aware of what the problem is in order to solve the problem.

No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.

The highest layer is that of reflective thought. Note that it does not have direct access either to sensory input or to the control of behavior. Instead it watches over, reflects upon, and tries to bias the behavioral level.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS, EXACTLY, BUT THE PEOPLE with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

I'd learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be "on." But when I'm alone my energy comes back. When I'm alone I don't have to perform for anybody.

I'd have to trust that my flaws were the ways through which I would receive grace. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation.

The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. The world revolves around us, regardless of how altruistic, generous, and selfless a person we may be.

No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

What goes on in the other person's soul is none of your business. All you're responsible for is your soul, nobody else's.