Quotes About Self-awareness

Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

I think and that is all that I am.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.