Quotes About Self-awareness

so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.

When you confuse the ego that you perceive in others with their identity, it is the work of your own ego that uses this misperception to strengthen itself through being right and therefore superior, and through reacting with condemnation, indignation, and often anger against the perceived enemy.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

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 instrumento se ha apoderado de usted.

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there. When you inhabit your body, it will be hard for unwanted guests to enter.

learn to disidentify from your mind.

You may have heard the Buddhist saying: "If there were no illusion, there would be no enlightenment." It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people's lives are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created, or rather ego-created.

Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.

long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.

When you feel the pain-body, don't fall into the error of thinking there is something wrong with you. Making yourself into the problem -- the ego loves that. The knowing needs to be followed by accepting.

Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.

All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. In the case of the ego, most of the challenges it encounters are self-created through its unconscious patterns. Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise.

Going beyond ego is stepping out of content. Knowing yourself is being yourself

La disfunción se establece cuando usted busca su identidad en ella y la confunde con lo que usted es.

can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button?

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.