Quotes About Self-awareness

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.