Quotes About Self-awareness

Of course, every few years you may be shocked when someone responds to your question "Do you really believe that?" with a very firm "yes." If so, be reachable yourself and listen to what the person has to say. A person who's brave enough to say "yes" to this question, and to stick by that answer, probably has some legitimate issues and will be happier and more productive if you iron those issues out.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

I stink, therefore I think.

This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.

Honestly, I've never felt better in my life. It's like somebody flicked a switch and I've suddenly realized how crazy I'd been acting all those years. All that talk about interfacing with an ultra-dimensional Phoenix deity – it was absolutely insane.

The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

A person should realize that conflict situations between oneself and others are nothing but the effects of conflict situations in one's own soul. MARTIN BUBER Let

La culpa no la tiene ninguna de las personas a las que llamo amigos, sino yo. Me falta algo. Y con el paso de los años me he ido dando cuenta poco a poco de que las decisiones que he tomado y la vida que he vivido han sido una respuesta a esa falta. Lo más significativo de mí, supongo, es lo que me falta.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

The eight-limbed path, or ashtanga yoga, is: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon from "The Man in the Mirror

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

C. S. Lewis wrote of temptation, "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

I want to invite you to look at all your beliefs deeply and see if any are limiting you in any way

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.