Quotes About Self-awareness

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as if they're still oppressed.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine