Quotes About Self-awareness

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it. Identification with the mind creates more time; observation of the mind opens up the dimension of the timeless. The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence.

To create suffering without recognizing it -- this is the essence of unconscious living...

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behaviour with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake *that* for who they are. If you are alert and present, you can point out behaviour without ego involvement (making the other person wrong).

True self is rooted in being

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without.

Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened

the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.

MAKE IT A HABIT TO ASK YOURSELF: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion.

MAKE IT A HABIT TO ASK YOURSELF: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being. CHAPTER

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within herself, that she was a burden to herself. She was ready to awaken, and this is why she had come.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. But it is no more than a form of ego, and as such, it is completely impersonal. It has nothing to do with who that person is, nor has it anything to do with who you are.

But beware: some people who are unresponsive, withdrawn, insensitive, or cut off from their feelings may try to convince others that there is nothing wrong with them and everything wrong with their partner. Men tend to do that more than women.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

La salud mental — la conciencia — sólo puede llegar a este mundo a través de usted.

Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are.

As people have become more and more mind-identified, which is the intensification of egoic dysfunction, there has also been a dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in recent decades. If the sufferer could look at her body without the interfering judgments of her mind or even recognize those judgments for what they are instead of believing in them—or better still, if she could feel her body from within—this would initiate her healing.

You need to make others wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are.