Quotes About Self-awareness

Our fear is like the first tile in a string of dominoes. Our denial of fear causes us to lie, to cheat, and to become people we don't even respect in order to maintain our illusion of control.

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

We who hate ourselves believe we are always wrong. We believe that our every thought, word, want, and deed is incorrect, insulting, barbarous. We so believe this that we beg forgiveness not just after every thought, word, want, and deed but during and before. We do this because we want everyone to know we know how wrong we are, how bumbling and ignorant and rude. We do this because we want them to know we know they know.

Negative thoughts "get stuck in your head and refuse to go, and the more you believe in them the more deeply lodged they become," says Tolle, who describes people with low self-esteem as being "stuck with hostile, life-denying, continuously critical and attacking entities that they carry in their heads and they believe . . . and they are constantly attacking themselves, or if they are not attacking themselves, they attack others around them.

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

To see the Logos, the principle of consciousness, crucified on the cross of time and space in our own selves is not an evasion but among the most profound insights a human being can have.

Thought creates character.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Identifying a negative outcome doesn't have the same personal sting if you turn it into a positive by finding things to learn from it. You don't have to be on the defensive side of every negative outcome because you can recognize, in addition to things you can improve, things you did well and things outside your control. You realize that not knowing is okay.

When we work toward belief calibration, we become less judgmental of ourselves.

Self-serving bias has immediate and obvious consequences for our ability to learn from experience.

That's why Daniel Kahneman thinks he needs a quitting coach, and why we all ought to see that need.

It's like you have a KICK ME sign on your back when it comes to identifying inaccuracies in what you know and believe. You can't see the sign because your eyes can see only what's in front of you. No matter how fast you spin around, you just can't see yourself from the back. Someone keeps kicking you, it's getting irritating, and you can't figure out why, even though you can clearly see the KICK ME signs on everybody else.

The predictable pattern of blaming the bad stuff on the world and taking credit for the good stuff is by no means limited to poker or car accidents. It's everywhere.

If you want some examples, go back to the very first questions I asked you: What were your best and worst decisions of the last year? The point of having you write those down is that most people don't actually think much about their best and worst decisions. They usually start by thinking of their best and worst outcomes and work backward from there. That's due to resulting.

Seek out the outside view with an open mind. You'll be more likely to find out about the KICK ME sign on your back, the spinach in your teeth, and all the things you're having trouble seeing from your perspective. That will help you clear out the junk, which will improve your decisions.

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

Ni soumission ni consentement, seulement l'effarement du reel qui fait tout juste se dire "qu'est-ce qui m'arrive" ou "c'est a moi que ça arrive" sauf qu'il ny'a plus de moi en cette circonstance, ou ce n'est plus le meme deja.

The girl in the picture is not me, but neither is she a fictional creation. There is no one else in the world I know in such vast and inexhaustible detail

E forse il vero scopo della mia vita è soltanto questo: che il mio corpo, le mie sensazioni e i miei pensieri diventino scrittura, qualcosa di intelligibile e di generale, la mia esistenza completamente dissolta nella testa e nella vita degli altri.

Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado

My whole story as a woman: going down a flight of stairs, and hanging back at each step.

Il avait appris la condition essentielle pour ne pas reproduire la misère des parents : ne pas s'oublier dans une femme.