Quotes About Self-awareness

At some point on the spiritual journey, saying "I am human" stops being an apology and turns into a deep reverence and knowing."

Helping professionals, Therapists, Life Coaches, Healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power that's gained from you developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change."

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.

People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they know that real power comes from surrender.

Through the absence of what we think we have to have, we can experience the discovery of our wholeness

Your relationship with others is your relationship with yourself: mirrored back to you.

You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.

Be careful the purpose doesn't destroy you.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

Everything you need to heal is inside yourself. You only need support and encouragement to listen to yourself—to your thoughts, feelings, imagery, and inner spiritual urgings. A book, like a therapist or group, can only guide you, helping you to say out loud what you dared not say even to yourself.

I can tell I'm getting older, because I find myself using words like "spacious," "roomy," and "comfortable" when I'm buying underwear.

APRIL 9 TAKING YOUR OWN body and mind as the laboratory, engage in some thoroughgoing research on your own mental functioning, and examine the possibility of making some positive changes within yourself.

FEBRUARY 5 FOR DISCOVERING ONE'S true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help. Then sometimes when one is very much involved in hatred or attachment, if there is time or possibility during that very moment, just try to look inward and ask: 'What is attachment? What is the nature of anger?

THE IMAGE WE have of ourselves readily tends to be complacent. We look at ourselves with indulgence. When something unpleasant happens to us, we always have the tendency to cast the blame on others, or on fate, a demon, or a god. We shrink from descending into ourselves, as the Buddha recommended.

The real enemy of the Christian Right is not Americans United or the ACLU; it is themselves.

I do not ordinarily hunt for a cave in the middle of the biggest excitement and most intense action, but this seemed to hit me in a new spot or something, and anyhow there I was, trying to arrange my mind. Or maybe my feelings. All I knew was that something inside of me needed a little arranging.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts, Robert Browning.

But when you're there, there you are, and

She gave me a little smile, the dimples coming, and said, 'We don't really know ourselves, do we?' 'It depends,' I said. 'Some of us know too much, and some not enough.

In a moment Wolfe said gruffly, "It is faintly encouraging that you are aware that you were stupid.

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made." [ Life magazine, December 10, 1965]

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

Conflicting feelings signals a cry for alignment