Quotes About Self-awareness

Awake from the sleep of condemnation and prove the principle of life. Stop not only your judgement of others but your condemnation of yourself.

No man can lift you to the level you desire. The power to ascend is within yourself; it is your consciousness.

Most of us think that we are kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble; but an uncritical observation of our reactions to life will reveal a self that is not all kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble. And it is is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change…

aceptas que Dios es tu propia conciencia de ser – como lo hicieron Jesús y los profetas – transformarás tu mundo con la comprensión de que "Yo y mi padre somos Uno".

The very first act of correction or cure is always 'revise'. One must start with oneself. It is one's attitude that must be changed.

El hombre, sin saber que su mundo es su conciencia individual exteriorizada, en vano se esfuerza por ajustarse a la opinión de los demás en lugar de ajustarse a la única opinión existente, es decir, su propio juicio de sí mismo.

You begin to express and possess that which you are conscious of being. Praying, then, is recognising yourself to be that which you desire to be rather than begging God for that which you desire.

So if you find yourself in a place where you are miserable and feel helpless, it is because you either knowingly or unknowingly fell into that state, and not because of the condemnation of some deity outside of you.

You and your conception of yourself are one. You are and always will be greater than any conception you will ever have of yourself.

What you must strive after is being. In order to do, it is necessary to be. The end of yearning is to be. Your concept of yourself can only be driven out of consciousness by another concept of yourself. By creating an ideal in your mind, you can identify yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby transforming yourself with it.

On reflection, it happens so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself, 'Well, it would have happened anyway,' and you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours.

Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door.

The power conceiving itself to be man is greater than its conception. All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.

Thoughts, no matter what they are, aren't the problem – our sometimes dysfunctional relationship with them is.

Yes, though I walk through all the confusion and changing opinions of men, I will fear no evil for I have found consciousness to be that which makes the confusion. Having in my own case restored it to its rightful place and dignity, I shall, in spite of the confusion, outpicture that which I am now conscious of being. And the very confusion will echo and reflect my own dignity.

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 judgement of himself.

The world is a mirror wherein everyone sees himself reflected. The objective world reflects the beliefs of the subjective mind.

No matter what the problem is, no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself.

There is only one thing in the world that you have complete control over, and that is your thinking. If you don't deliberately give yourself positive directions, your mind and your body will continue to act upon directions from anywhere and everywhere,

I'm at an age now when in the early mornings I'm often revisited by all my own mistakes, stupidities and unintended cruelties. They sit around the edge of the bed and look at me and say nothing. But I see them well enough.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Again, fix the outsides and maybe my insides won't be such a dark place.

They don't have to struggle like I do - or maybe that's just me comparing my goddamn insides to everyone else's outsides.