Quotes About Self-awareness

Era de esos hombres que no disponen de tiempo ni ocasión para dejar de ocuparse de sí mismos.

I am a Spaniard, that is to say, a man without imagination.

We mortals are, in general, like tortoises: we value and classify ourselves according to our shells.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Sabes lo que es quedarse a la orilla de uno mismo, contemplándose?

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constantemente, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride

He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life. When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing? Grief and delusion rest upon a belief in diversity, which leads to competition and all forms of selfishness. With the realization of oneness, the sense of diversity vanishes and the cause of misery is removed.

Indeed, nothing is more common among men than an entire blindness to their own real characters. How long have I placed my happiness in mere chimeras! How often have I grounded my vain hopes upon imaginary foundations?

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can't help it.

Without the steadiness of concentration, it is easy to get caught up in the feelings, perceptions, and thoughts as they arise. We take them to be self and get carried away by trains of association and reactivity.

Most people believe that we are the thoughts that come through our mind. I hope not, because if we are, we are in big trouble! Those thoughts coming through have clearly been conditioned by something: by different events in our childhood, our environment, our past lives, or even some occurrence that has happened two minutes before.

An emotion is like a cloud passing through the sky. Sometimes it is fear or anger, sometimes it is happiness or love, sometimes it is compassion. But none of them ultimately constitute a self. They are just what they are, each manifesting its own quality. With this understanding, we can cultivate the emotions that seem helpful and simply let the others be, without aversion, without suppression, without identification.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.