Quotes About Self-awareness

I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Such people are trapped in their own hall of mirrors, and for them there is no escape. They can never know whether they are wrong, even when they are. No evidence, no logic, no reason will ever get through to them.

Swedes, Germans and Britons, when tested in a similar manner, do the same, selecting positive adjectives to describe their own culture.

This should remind us that the primary threat to the safety of our loved ones is always our own sin.

There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will save you a lot of grief if you are aware and expect to discover it about yourself.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.

Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.

Scheff called shame the social emotion because pride and shame provide the social evaluative feedback as we experience ourselves as if through others' eyes.

this book has been written by a certifiably lazy man.

they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.

The tragedy is to die without knowing who you were, to keep the act going till the end.

The person who lets the world control him, no longer possesses his inner self.

And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury.

When I fume in the tollbooth line, I am not a good person to whom a bad thing is happening. I am a liar who is getting what he deserves.

I'd given up on understanding my own hidden temperament a long time ago. Lots of monsters inhabited my sunless depths, but most of them were nonlethal.

Everything is so obvious, so blissfully clear. But her parents can't see it. There is great, joyous, and essential work to do. But first a person needs to graduate from endless self-love.

We only see things that look like us.

For the bitch I was. For the attentive person I wasn't.

You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.

You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way unnatural or supernatural . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.