Quotes About Self-awareness

I may be black bastard, but at least I know what I am.

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.

Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don't need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?

Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.

To sum up the meditative process, you have to break the habit of being yourself and reinvent a new self; lose your mind and create a new one; prune synaptic connections and nurture new ones; unmemorize past emotions and recondition the body to a new mind and emotions; and let go of the past and create a new future.

A new state of being creates a new personality … a new personality produces a new personal reality. How will you know whether this meditative practice has activated your three brains to produce the intended effect? Simple: you will feel different as a result of investing in the process.

Change as a Choice, Instead of a Reaction

What beliefs and perceptions about you and your life have you been unconsciously agreeing to that you'd have to change in order to create this new state of being?

Since the neuroscientific definition of mind is the brain in action, you repeatedly reproduce the same level of mind by "re-minding" yourself who you think you are in reference to the outer world.

That's why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that's the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and behaving in the same way that reinforces the unconscious programs that reflect our personalities and our personal realities.

You must become conscious of the unconscious behaviors you've been choosing to demonstrate that have led to the same experiences, and then you must make new choices, take new actions, and create new experiences.

My goal is to educate you about the effects of stress on the body, creating a level of self-awareness that causes you to stop and ask yourself, Is anyone or anything really worth it? So

The more we think the same thoughts, which then produce the same chemicals, which cause the body to have the same feelings, the more we physically become modified by our thoughts. In this way, depending on what we are thinking and feeling, we create our state of being. What we think about and the energy or intensity of these thoughts directly influences our health, the choices we make, and, ultimately, our quality of life. Applying

Ninguna persona, cosa ni experiencia deben alterar en ningún momento ni lugar tu coherencia química interior. Puedes pensar, actuar y sentir de distinta manera siempre que lo desees.

When feelings have become the means of thinking in this manner—or we can't think greater than how we feel—then we're in the program. Our thinking is how we feel, and our feelings are how we think.

With repeated practice, you can become so aware of the old patterns that you never allow them to manifest to fruition.

The more whole you feel the less lack you experience, and therefore the less you want.

Just as thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel create a state of being.

Ultimately, you will create transparency. When how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.

move from being selfish to selfless.

Lo que repasas mentalmente y lo que demuestras físicamente es quien eres a nivel neurológico. Tu yo <> está hecho de la combinación de tus pensamientos y acciones que tienen lugar a cada momento.

if you can't think greater than how you feel, this thinking-feeling loop keeps you anchored to your past and creates a constant state of being. This is how the body becomes the mind—or in time, how your thoughts run you and your feelings own you.

Whether you're sitting in a chair or on the floor cross-legged, sit up straight and keep your spine erect. Your body should be relaxed, but your mind needs to stay focused, so don't be so relaxed that you fall asleep. If your head begins to nod during meditation, it's a sign that you're moving into a slower brain-wave state, so don't worry too much about that. With some practice, your body will become conditioned and won't want to doze off. As

expecting something to change in your life. If you use feelings and emotions as a barometer for change, you'll always talk yourself out of possibility