Self Awareness Quotes

The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to HIMSELF!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.

~ Ivan M. Granger

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

~ Deborah Sandella

Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.

~ Cheryl L. Ilov

We cannot replicate other people’s lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person can only see their shadow if they awaken their eclectic soul. Self-understanding commences by admitting to the shadowy presence of the primordial unconsciousness. The unconscious mind is a magical concoction of logical and irrational thoughts and feelings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Tim blinked his eyes a few times, and then crossed a leg over in an attempt to regain a composure that would cover any visible traces of destructive inclinations possibly stored in any mental compartments in his emotional vehicle. He trembled a bit after catching a presumed glimpse of unstableness in himself through the second person perception of himself that could have possibly been perceived by his supervisor.

~ Calvin W. Allison

Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Where there is awareness, there is change.

~ Eileen Anglin

There is always a worthwhile price for discovery. Discover who you are. Know yourself.

~ Sesan Kareem

Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do.

~ Narboe

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There's always something we don't know anything about. she said. More than we like to admit. The more we discover, the more we realize we don't fully understand. Our world, our solar system, the universe... it all adds up. I mean, when you think about it-- do we even know that much about ourselves?

~ Ross Montgomery

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.

~ Nuno Roque

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

~ Philip Roth

The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.

~ Martin M. Stupak

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

~ Richard Paul Evans

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The less human you feel, the more human you become.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.

~ Anonymous

When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.

~ Bud Harris

Just because you feel lost doesn't mean that you're doing something wrong. Feeling certain that you are correct in every decision and situation is an addiction. If you think that the journey of self-discovery will bring you more solid facts and certainties about yourself and the world, you will be frustrated. The more you see, the more lost you will feel. That is natural. The more you discover of yourself, the more confused you will become. This is natural. The wiser you get, the more you will see that there are many paths walked by just as many people, and that just because yours is different from someone else's doesn't mean one of you is wrong. This is natural. Over time, you will develop humility, compassion, and a higher tolerance for confusion. If you allow the feeling of being lost to drive you into a search for absolute truths and correct answers, you may feel more secure when you get there, but in reality, you will be taking a step back. Allow yourself to be lost, and you will see so much more of the forest of your soul than if you beeline back for the trail. Explore. Get lost. Embrace the inevitability of confusion.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.

~ David Levithan

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

~ Amit Ray

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

~ Hermann Hesse

I came on earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Fearing the wind that causes the shaking branch directs you to where energy is needed for improving your life.

~ Andrea Dye

If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I came to the earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth.

~ Mercy Celeste

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

~ Eric Hoffer