Quotes About Self-awareness

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

To the extent that we project responsibility for a dysfunction outside ourselves, we cannot change it. Wherever the wound came from, however many years ago, its healing lies not in the past but in the present. Your subconscious will continue to trigger the wound for along as it takes- a iffy years old experiencing a five year olds pain- until you allow it to be healed.

David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.

We usually know a lover is on the way well before he gets here. As often as we hear stories like I met my partner when I least expected to meet anyone, on some level, we know that's nonsense. A woman in touch with herself can sense the coming of things, and the come of love is like a deer running through a forest on the way to your door. We can feel a love approaching; and when we are in touch with the Goddess, we prepare ourselves in advance.

Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.

Knowing who you are and why you came here -- that you are a child of God, and that you came here to heal and be healed -- is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, When I do anything, how should I do it? And the answer is, Kindly.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.

Rage turned outward is called rage. Rage turned inward is called ulcers and cancer and things like that. The unhealthiest thing you can do with anger is to deny you have it.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

we are punished by our sins, not for them. Your mistakes, no matter how bad you might think they were, did not emanate from your self as He created you. Thats why remembering who you truly are is the key to deliverance from the flames of self condemnation.

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

We don't deny we're upset, but at the same time we own up to the fact that all our feelings stem from our own loveless thinking, and we're willing to have that lovelessness healed.

anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Many of us know in our hearts that we never really grew up. The problem isn't that we're lost or apathetic, narcissistic or materialistic. The problem is we're terrified.

Si queremos que nuestras vidas cambien, de nada nos servirá mudarnos a otra ciudad, cambiar de trabajo o cambiar de una relación a otra. A donde quiera que vayamos, como dicen, vamos con nosotros mismos. Nos manifestamos, no tanto por la ubicación geográfica como por la conciencia. Podemos viajar a lugares remotos, pero eso, en sí mismo, no nos cambiará básicamente. Para que nuestras vidas cambien, tenemos que viajar al nivel más profundo.

los sentimientos de fracaso se presentan en todas nuestras vidas y que lo que importa es en quién nos convirtamos como resultado.

we have forgotten who we ourselves are.

What I think about anyone else I'm thinking about myself.

Por mediación de diversas técnicas terapéuticas, llegué a estar muy al tanto de mis propias neurosis, pero eso no necesariamente las exorcizaba.

Si queremos alcanzar logros en el mundo exterior, tendremos que lograr progresos en nuestro interior. Porque el nivel de conciencia es el nivel de la causa; resolver

El crecimiento nunca tiene que ver con concentrarnos en las lecciones de otra persona, sino en las nuestras. No somos víctimas del mundo exterior. Por más difícil que sea creerlo a veces, siempre somos responsables de nuestra manera de ver las cosas. No

Defending against being overwhelmed by your emotions, you actually create emotions that are overwhelming. You begin by trying to keep your emotions at bay, eat them, go numb instead of feeling them—and in so doing, create a situation that causes you an endless run of painful emotions. By trying to escape your feelings, you create a whole slew of them that will arrive full force once you realize what you've done. The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Marie is a person whose life experiences, though different from most, have never robbed her of her humanity. At the very depth of her psychosis, she could touch her own wish for sanity even though this touch required every bit of her will to live. From a curled-up position of catatonic silence on her hospital bed, she could still see herself: 'I looked at myself and said, 'No more. I can't go on this way anymore...if I ever want to get out of here, if I ever want to get better (xiii)