Quotes About Self-awareness

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.

the silent witness is that level where you know yourself, without regard for what others think they know.

Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

No longer blinded by a fantasy of perfect love, you find that you are less critical; you don't judge others as much; you have less fear and distrust. At that point you will be able to do the most important thing: you will know what you need and how to get it. Most people are confused about what they actually need, and therefore they seek it in the wrong places.

When someone asks, "How do I find the right one?" my answer is "Don't look for the right one. Be the right one.

Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.

What do you find when you go inside? A rich world, streaming with thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, hopes, wishes, dreams, and fears. No one is immune to the allure of this world. We experience ourselves in here, and everything we can possibly imagine.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation. These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else's fault. When you

A crazy man calls himself a king. I call myself Queen of the Nile, but the last time I looked there isn't a crown under my pillow.

Tu verdadero Ser, que es tu espíritu, tu alma, está completamente libre de esas cosas. Es inmune a la crítica, no tiene miedo a los retos, y no se siente inferior a nadie. Y aún así, es humilde y no se siente superior a nadie, porque reconoce que todos los demás son el mismo Ser, el mismo espíritu con diferentes disfraces. Experimenta respeto por toda la gente, cuando al mismo tiempo no se siente inferior a nadie.

The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.

You acquire full power only by realizing that you have been using that power all along to thwart yourself. You are potentially the prisoner, the jailer, and the hero who opens the prison, all rolled into one.

The second thing is to take responsibility for your situation and for all the events you see as problems. This means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Responsibility means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it into a better situation.

Al igual que dos pájaros posados en el mismo árbol, que son íntimos amigos, el ego y el yo moran en el mismo cuerpo. El primer pájaro come las frutas dulces y amargas de la vida, mientras que el otro lo observa en silencio.

Spiritual teachers tell us if you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness, just look around at what is happening in the world. At any given point in time your personal reality is synchronistically, coincidentally orchestrated by your sense of self.

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With all its worship of material success, society has missed a profound truth: success depends on who you are, not what you do.

most of our energy goes into upholding our importance.… If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to … catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas.

You don't give up the intention; and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.