Quotes About Self-awareness

Know yourself as beyond space and time - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable - you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are - against fear there is no other remedy.

As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher.

The more we cloak our divinity, the dimmer the spark becomes. If we choose to shape our lives according to the lesser amount of light, rather than the boundless amount of light from the source, this becomes the yardstick by which all our experiences are measured.

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

What we must recognize is that the self-centeredness of the addict is just an extreme example of a universal human condition. Everyone is self-centered; we are born that way. Our minds and bodies have evolved over thousands of years with a built-in survival instinct that is both inwardly and outwardly focused.

you create your life in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourselves and others.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

dive inside your head, where you are safe. separate yourself from the pain. inside your head you can be in control and you can bear any pain if you know it isn't going to last. the key was figuring out when it was going to end

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

You carry your own ability to be happy, or the lack of it, wherever you are.

I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That's why depression crushes you.

I was boring myself. That's the worst part of a bad date. It makes you feel like a toad, and you keep telling yourself, "I know I'm more fun than this, and I know that when I came into this café I wasn't in despair about the human condition.

I will never dream again. For I can never again forget who I am. I realized that when I couldn't escape from the pain.

Although she tried not to let the rumors that she had followed the Prince out of vanity bother her, she had known that it was partly true. Her aching heart, however, gradually informed her that it was much more than just partly true.

The reasons why people cannot achieve their goals are not because they lack abilities or character, but because they are setting their goals in a wrong way and trying to achieve them in a wrong way. " – Takashi Harada

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The