Quotes About Self-awareness

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

Residual emotions always show up from time to time in our daily lives until we completely offload them.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.