Quotes About Self-awareness

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.

come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

Weeds grew, and I ignored my chores, while the cat worried her tail of its most plumescent fur. I saw my body, white as tallow, my face framed by colorless hair, noted my appetites, then put them aside, walked and walked to wear it all away.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I'm afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn't be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.

Wenn ich heute an die Frau denke, die ich einmal war, die Frau mit dem kleinen Doppelkinn, die sich sehr bemühte, jünger auszusehen, als sie war, empfinde ich wenig Sympathie für sie. Ich möchte aber nicht zu hart über sie urteilen. Sie hatte ja nie eine Möglichkeit, ihr Leben bewußt zu gestalten.

Nadie protege la moral de manera más estricta que el propio infractor furtivo, pues éste tiene claro que la humanidad naufragaría si todos los seres humanos tuviesen la posibilidad de vivir como él.

The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.

Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.

When you come into the real truth about yourself, you realize that the only person equipped to handle it is you. Some men can't even handle that, which is why Bellevue always full.

Being a fool is a curse too

Y dijo: ¿sabes por qué me llaman Chistoso? Porque nunca estoy pa bromas.

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

My uncle rubbed his chin and looked at me. "You were born when you were found, and that is not even a moon. Do not rush to die so soon," he said. I did not tell him that I was a man already.

There is one, a girl, I know she hates me, and it bothers me, because I see with her eyes and she is right.

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Acceptance can transform but if you accept in order to transform, it is not acceptance. It is like loving. Love seeks no reward but when given freely comes back a hundredfold. He who loses his life finds it. He who accepts, changes.

Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.

Some people have censored so much of themselves for so long that they forget what it is they do feel and think.

MBR: In my lifetime I've been called a multitude of names, yet I can't recall seriously learning anything by being told what I am. I'd like to learn from your appreciation and enjoy it, but I would need more information.

We deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to factors outside ourselves:

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs.

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are.

When our consciousness is focused on what we need, we are naturally stimulated toward creative possibilities for how to get that need met. In contrast, the moralistic judgements we use when blaming ourselves tend to obscure such possibilities and perpetuate a state of self-punishment.