Quotes About Self-awareness

And becomes aware of her image once more, vaguely reflected in the dirty attic window: what does it mean, all this concern about our images? It means this is the only way we ever see ourselves; looking out, at others, reflected through cobwebs from an attic window

Put this all a different way, and perhaps the importance of this fact will become clear: the very key to your growth, development, and evolution is to make your present subject an object—that is, it is to look at your present subject instead of using it as something through which to view the world (and thus remain identified with).

Step Two: Face It. Once you have a good deal of videotape of the problematic item, then face it. If the symptom seems to be triggered by a particular person, then locate that person in your mind, and face him or her (or them). It might help to sit in a chair and put another "empty chair" in front of you. Put the problem in the empty chair—the person, monster, image, event, or simply the symptom itself (depression, anxiety, fear, envy).

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

Seek to know the power that is within you.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

My power will be in humility.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

Greatness knows itself.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.