Quotes About Self-awareness

What a fool I used to be (The truest words I ever wrote, and they get truer every day. )

Remember: What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do.

The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.

We are told to believe in ourselves," he said. "But I'm not sure that's what we are meant to do.

you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.

I read this article about how you can have anything going on in your head, as long as it doesn't manifest itself. Like a reflection.' I waited for my sister to expand on that, but she remained quiet. 'LIke a reflection that's different from what's doing the reflecting,' I suggested.

Amina knew she was a different person in Bangla than she was English; she noticed the change every time she switched languages on the phone. She was older in English, and also less fastidious; she was the parent to her parents.

Was there a person who existed beneath languages?

he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Anna'd been born female, she'd grown into a small woman and, in the past ten years, had slid into middle age. If ever there was a cloak of invisibility, time and circumstances were trying to weave her one.

Soon she was going to have to relinquish her self-image as a hermit.

Never entertain an undesirable feeling, nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others. To do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another.

All meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he, himself, has conceived.

I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did.

You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are.

I dwell within every conception of myself; from this withinness I ever seek to transcend all conceptions of myself. By the very law of my being I transcend my conceptions of myself, only as I believe myself to be that which does transcend.

If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples' opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgment of himself.

Close your eyes and feel yourself to be faceless, formless and without figure. Approach this stillness as though it were the easiest thing in the world to accomplish. This attitude will assure your success.

La lección aprendida será esta: Hay sólo un Maestro y este Maestro es Dios, el Yo Soy dentro de ellos mismos "Yo Soy el Señor tu Dios que te sacó de la tierra de Egipto; fuera de la casa de la esclavitud". Yo Soy, tu conciencia, es Señor y Maestro y, por otra parte, tu conciencia no es ni Señor ni Maestro. Tú eres el Maestro de todo lo que siempre serás consciente de ser.

Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it.