Quotes on Self Awareness

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.