Self Awareness Quotes

The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people’s eyes or by looking deep within themselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

~ Amit Ray

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all are eternally one.

~ Amit Ray

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

~ Hermann Hesse

There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you and working hard to create a life that you’ve been told you should want.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The fullness of life is wrapped in all sacred times: plenty and scarcity, happiness and sadness, planting and harvesting, sunrise and sunset, winter and springtime, summer and autumn, beginning and finishing, birth and death…!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

~ Amit Ray

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

~ Amit Ray

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight.

~ Bikash Chaurasiya

Whenever possible, choose peace.

~ Donna Goddard

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

~ Amit Ray

If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You deserve peace. You deserve love and respect. Don't get caught up and deprive the very essence of you

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If you want to experience joy and happiness in life, you must free your mind. Don't become a prisoner to your thoughts. Don't allow your perceptions to be the only views you believe. Allow truth to penetrate your core as it sets you free

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Mankind is one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This world is your mirror. Wherever you go, you see a reflection of your thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts.

~ Debasish Mridha

Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination.

~ Debasish Mridha

Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.

~ Debasish Mridha

The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self.

~ Debasish Mridha

Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Welcome the hidden messages in pain.

~ Deborah Sandella

Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self. And if that works, why not feeling disgust for shit, fearing the cliff edge and strangers, remembering insults and favours, liking sex and food? God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.

~ Ian Mcewan

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

~ Kij Johnson

Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.

~ Núria Añó

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.

~ Kellie Elmore

The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn

~ Salvatore G. Laterra

Where we can get shagged up is the stories we tell ourselves that we rarely share. The stories about how we can’t do something because we aren’t good enough, or smart enough, or capable enough. These stories cause us problems because we often keep them secret, hidden away in some dark closet in our mind, sometimes even from ourselves. And this, my friend, is a problem.

~ Lyssa Danehy Dehart

Today is a day to be thankful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita