Quotes About Self-awareness

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Educated people recognise their limitations but focus on their strengths.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding.

Building character is like making bread—you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

We say, "A good father is not a good father." Do you understand? One who thinks he is a good father is not a good father; one who thinks he is a good husband is not a good husband. One who thinks he is one of the worst husbands may be a good one if he is always trying to be a good husband with a single-hearted effort.

If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

are aware of this movement. You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature

So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings.

Natürlich mochte ich die, die nicht ich waren, nur selten.

What it boiled down to is the strength to be able to say, 'I don't want to think about it.' Thinking negatively is the result of guilt and insecurity... You are the person who makes yourself happy. You're the person who makes yourself sad. It's much easier to feel better when you keep remembering that." [-p.481, "Caesar's Hours, My Life in Comedy with Love and Laughter", by Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld, 2003]

Ego is like our shadow.... when enlightenment is at its best there is no ego and we live well within ourselves.... however as soon as the sun (of sanity)starts setting our ego starts outgrowing us.

Temper is like Blood...... you only see it when you lose it!!!

The Mirror may have many uses however sooner or later one uses it for introspection!!!!

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

We are what we are, and half of what we are is what we are not.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

They have never found that area within themselves where they can be peaceful with who they are, what they are, and where they are. In