Quotes About Self-awareness

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

When I knew a thing or two, pride kept me blind. I was a like a rutting buck, mind so stained I imagined "I'm a buddha." Then bit by bit I approached the truly wise-minded and saw myself a fool-- pride was a fever that finally broke.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

Kendini duymak, gücünü s?namak, istedi?ini yapma?a gücü yetebilece?ini anlamak için güç yoldan gitmek, iyidir, gereklidir. ?nsan?n, gerçekle?mesini istedi?i bir i?e önce kendi benli?ini ko?mas?, i?e önce kendinden ba?lamas? gerekir.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

Listen carefully to the advice you give to others. because this counsel is really meant for you.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are.

We begin life on a linear path where success is based on clear targets. Life gets complicated when the targets aren't clear, and you have to set your own. By rubbing up against the world, you get to know yourself. Either do that, or you're going to spend your life serving the interests and expectations of others.

From my daughters, however, I have learned what every parent knows of himself—that I do not know how to raise children.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.

Each of us was meant to be an original, but most of us die merely a copy. Anyone who discovers who God made him or her to be would never want to be anyone else.

No one who discovers who God has made him or her to be would want to be anyone else.

When we know who He made us to be, we'll never want to be anyone else. He has wrapped up His significance in the destiny of every person He called to Himself for salvation

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They no longer work to fit into other people's expectations; they burn with the realization of who the Father says they are.