Quotes About Self-awareness

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can be otherwise.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

La persona debería aprender a detectar y observar ese destello de luz que atraviesa su mente desde adentro, más que el realce del firmamento de los bardos y sabios. Sin embargo, la persona desecha su propio pensamiento sin tomarlo en cuenta, porque es suyo.

The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?

let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior.

That which we object to in others is often experiment for ourselves.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you

There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness. Every man supposed himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzed. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

We should judge society starting with ourselves and our own minds.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.