Quotes About Self-awareness

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

El comienzo de la libertad es la comprensión de que usted no es la entidad que lo posee, el que piensa. Saber esto le permite observar a esa entidad.

The ego's unconscious core feeling of "not enough" causes it to react to someone else's success as if that success had taken something away from "me." It doesn't know that your resentment of another person's success curtails your own chances of success. In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.

La liberté commence quand vous prenez conscience que vous n'êtes pas cette entité, c'est-à-dire le penseur. En sachant cela, vous pouvez alors surveiller cette entité. Dès l'instant où vous vous mettez à observer le penseur, un niveau plus élevé de conscience est activé.

Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing. Please don't just accept or reject what I am saying. Put it to the

Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

The voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at the mercy of that voice; they are possessed by thought, by the mind. And since the mind is conditioned by the past, you are then forced to reenact the past again and again.

Ultimately, of course, there is no other and you are always meeting yourself.

The moment you become aware of a negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is identification with inner states, and such identification is ego.

When you say "no" to a person or a situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive "no," a high-quality "no," a "no" that is free of all negativity

Are you defending your right to be unconscious, your right to suffer? Don't worry. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep asserting that it is okay to be sick?

This is not to say that all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness.

Many people still live like that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old dysfunctional mind-sets that continuously re-create the same nightmarish reality

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

What you usually refer to when you say "I" is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of "I" in your mind and whatever the "I" has identified with.

This is to say, you don't need to become whole, but be what you already are—with or without the pain-body.

Am I at ease at this moment?" is a good question to ask yourself frequently. Or you can ask: "What's going on inside me at this moment?

When you say "no" to a person or a situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive "no," a high-quality "no," a "no" that is free of all negativity and so creates no further suffering.

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. In that sense, you have much to learn from your enemies

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" 1

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

Nota: la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instru-mento se ha apoderado de usted.