Quotes About Self-awareness

Fluir significa aceptar que nadie más que uno mismo es el responsable de lo que nos pasa, aceptar que lo que acontece es siempre un reflejo de nosotros mismos y una oportunidad para crecer. Crecer significa acercarse a lo que verdaderamente somos y esto es la totalidad en la que todo lo que sucede acontece dentro. En esta condición no existe lo externo sino solamente uno mismo.

El motivo de que estés atrapado es lo que llamamos «la importancia personal». La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor. Durante el periodo de nuestra educación (o de nuestra domesticación), aprendimos a tomarnos todas las cosas de forma personal. Creemos que somos responsables de todo. ¡Yo, yo, yo y siempre yo!

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

E' caratteristico degli animi indeboliti vedere tutte le cose attraverso un velo: l'anima si crea da sè i suoi orizzonti, ed è lei che vi crea un cielo tempestoso

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

One sign that you have found the characteristics of your heart is when your passion, purpose, talents and pain all come together and begin defining who you are.

my heart knows who i am and who i'll turn out to be!

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

the trick of finding what you didn't lose (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) the teachable imposture of always arriving at the place you never left (and i refer to thinking)rests upon a dismal misconception;namely that some neither ape nor angel called a man is measured by his quote eye cue unquote.

He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.

We have to be wary of our brains. They make our decisions before we make them. They lead us to still waters. They renounceth free will. And it gets weirder: If you slice a brain down the middle, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere will operate self-sufficiently and not know what the other is doing.

Homer, maybe you can tell me why I am fatally attracted to women who are no more than mirrors of myself.

should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know.

Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.

Wherever you go, there you are.

You can easily recognize that something is coming from Ego because when you get it, it doesn't satisfy you.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.