Quotes About Self-awareness

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado.

In that case I was a somnambulist — was living, without knowing it, that double, mysterious life which makes us doubt whether there are not two beings in us — whether a strange, unknowable, and invisible being does not, during our moments of mental and physical torpor, animate the inert body, forcing it to a more willing obedience than it yields to ourselves.

Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off.

the less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.

To go beyond yourself, you must first be yourself.

Our problem is that we're sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. DON MIGUEL RUIZ, THE FOUR AGREEMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM

If you can sit here and talk to a person you don't know very well, and talk about all these things you've been through—that's something. That's courage. It's knowing yourself.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

Dr. George Sheehan once said, "We are each an experiment of one.

Anyone who doesn't know others doesn't know himself.

Is it not amazing that around a man as cold as I am, there should always be fire? Sometimes it tries to burn me, but I usually collect my things and leave.

My dear friends, my dear disciples, don't take refuge in anything outside of you.

Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy

But to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding--that is an enviable state of mind.

The truth is a tattoo on your forehead. You can't see it yourself. I am your mirror.