Quotes About Self-awareness

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Each one of us, of course, the Controller meditatively continued, goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking enormous.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

After all, what is an individual?

And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you. Isn't tasting me? ... I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism. And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to.

When psychological education is less rudimentary that it is at present, people belonging to different types will recognize each other's right to exist. Every man will stick to the problems, inward or outward, with which nature has fitted him to deal; and he will restrained, if not by tolerance, at least by the salutary fear of making a fool of himself, from trespassing on the territory of minds belonging to another type.

El remordimiento crónico, y en ello están acordes todos los moralistas, es un sentimiento sumamente indeseable. Si has obrado mal, arrepiéntete, enmienda tus yerros en lo posible y encamina tus esfuerzos a la tarea de comportarte mejor la próxima vez. Pero en ningún caso debes entregarte a una morosa meditación sobre tus faltas. Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse.

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

Do you know what it's like, he asked at length, to feel that nothing is quite real -- including yourself? Susila nodded. It sometimes happens when one's just on the point of discovering that everything, including oneself, is much more real than one ever imagined. It's like shifting gears: you have to go into neutral before you change into high.

Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

en ningún caso debes entregarte a una morosa meditación sobre tus faltas. Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse.

For the moment that interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

El exceso mental puede producir, para sus fines, la ceguera y sordera voluntarias de una deliberada soledad, la impotencia artificial del ascetismo.

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, and sometime criminal ways that are so characteristically human.

in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do.

Yo soy yo, y desearía no serlo. La conciencia que tenía de sí mismo era muy aguda y dolorosa. Cada vez que se descubría a sí mismo mirando horizontalmente y no de arriba abajo a la cara de un Delta, se sentía humillado

She knows too that this temple isn't what she still like to think it is - the house of Buddha. She knows it's just a diagram of her own unconscious mind.

Si la mayoría de nosotros permanecemos ignorantes de nosotros mismos, es porque el autoconocimiento es doloroso y preferimos los placeres de la ilusión