Quotes About Self-awareness

When you give the credit or the blame to another for your success or lack of it—you are powerless to make any change.

When you're able to acknowledge that many people are choosing different things; they believe differently; they want differently; they act differently, and when you understand that all of that adds to a more perfect whole, and that none of that threatens you-because the only thing that affects you is what you're doing with your own valve-then you move about freely and joyously.

Someone outside of you does not know if your chosen thought of anger is an improvement for you; only you know—by the relief that you feel— the appropriateness of any thought. Until you decide that you are going to guide yourself by the way you feel, you can make no steady progress toward your own desires.

It is good to get out of the mode of blaming, because that get s you nowhere, and into the mode of acknowledging that every step of the way, you did the best that you knew to do. Abraham -- G 6/7/91

you would not want to mask your own feelings, pretending to feel different from how you really feel. The only way you can do so is to change your vibrational offering, and when you change your vibrational offering, the way you feel changes, too.

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.

Growing in knowing ourselves in relation to the world and to others means being strategically selective in our personal investments, attending to our own gifts and trusting the diverse gifts of others in our team. It means pledge-like guarding of other commitments we have already assumed.

I'm in touch with my feminine side." Lucky put one hand over his heart. "Every lunar cycle I become very moody.

Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.

DiÄŸer serserilerden pek fark? yoktu Kobi'nin. Ä°nsan?n asl?nda çirkin mi yoksa aptal m? olduÄŸuna karar veremediÄŸi tiplerden

Bir düÅŸün. DüÅŸte herkes duvar?n öte yan?na geçiyor çünkü varoluÅŸlar?n? ciddiye alm?yorlar. Ama sen, kafan sürekli kendinle meÅŸgul olduÄŸu için duvar? aÅŸam?yorsun. Bu düÅŸ dosyas? çoktan kapanm??t?r. EÄŸitimsel neredeyse, bana sorarsan.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

The results we are looking for, unfortunately, often include stopping our thoughts altogether, or destroying unwanted emotions. One simple reason meditation is difficult to sustain is that the principal benefits of meditation are not short-term, and it is generally hard to convince ourselves to engage in anything that has mostly long-term effects. Our

Whenever an emotion arises in the space of our awareness, it creates a powerful wind that can be either harnessed as wisdom or fixated upon and treated neurotically and destructively.

Within the realm of mental reactions, when you know what is yours and what is someone else's, it makes it easier to help another human being, because you no longer take their confusion so personally.

When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When

An enlightened society is one where the culture encourages time for self-awareness, belonging, and connection. An enlightened society would actually foster cultural and social relationships to help commuters find their way home. It

Moving from a more focused approach to self-awareness and our own personal karma to a more relational approach to how we interact with others is referred to as the transition from the Hinayana7 (narrow vehicle) to the Mahayana (expansive vehicle) within the historically Tibetan tradition. The journey of relationships is not a better path—it's just a natural broadening of the scope of our practice.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

How can I be honest with you," he said, "when you are not honest with yourself" "You are bound—some time—to reap what you have sown.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

À pessoa que descansa em si não lhe interessa o tempo; a evolução não deve levar o tempo em conta.

J'ai reçu assez de dons intellectuels pour pouvoir tout sonder, tout aborder, tout saisir en formules claires ; on me croit supérieurement informée de bien des problèmes de la vie ; pourtant, là, tout au fond de moi, il y a une pelote agglutinée, quelque chose me retient dans une poigne de fer, et toute ma clarté de pensée ne m'empêche pas d'être bien souvent une pauvre godiche peureuse.

I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.