Philosophy Self Awareness Quotes & Sayings

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge — Lailah Gifty Akita

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization. — Abhijit Naskar

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

How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think. — Paul Hoffman

The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self. — Debasish Mridha

Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a meaningful life that is self-directed instead of exclusively controlled by innate traits and external determinates. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

What your precious life wants to be or do - it is only up to you. — Debasish Mridha

Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A person employs human reason and intellect to guide our earthly expedition. We can stumble through life satisfying the unconscious dictates of the mind or take control of our life by increasing our level of conscious awareness. Philosophy always commences with an act of consciousness. We must follow our moral passions. We create our reality by what we perceive as truth. We imagine a life that we wish to experience. Live the life that you envision. Do not allow other people or external determinates to control your conception of the self, because otherwise you are living someone else's life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Yoga does not always cure stress. It neutralizes it through increasing awareness and by changing self-perception. — Debasish Mridha

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers. — George Makari

Remember that you are never alone - you are always with yourself. — Debasish Mridha

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have. — Abhijit Naskar

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself. — Abhijit Naskar

Self-master is the greatest success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Know thy self, and the world will be thy oyster! — Abhijit Naskar

First know the Self and then talk of social reformation. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self. — Abhijit Naskar

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) — J.M. Coetzee

Ideal is the one, who knows the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow. — Nikki Rowe

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware. — Abhijit Naskar

The greatest discovery is self-discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy. — Kamand Kojouri

I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that. — Kevin Hearne

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful. — Amit Ray

Physical activity promotes high productivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our self-awareness impresses itself on us so cogently, as individuals and as a species, that we cannot imagine ourselves out of existence, even though for hundreds of millions of years humans played no part in the flow of life on the planet. When Teilhard de Chardin wrote, "The phenomenon of Man was essentially foreordained from the beginning," he was speaking from the depth of individual experience, which we all share, as much as from religious philosophy. Our inability to imagine a world without Homo sapiens has a profound impact on our view of ourselves; it becomes seductively easy to imagine that our evolution was inevitable. And inevitability gives meaning to life, because there is a deep security in believing that the way things are is the way they were meant to be. — Richard E. Leakey

Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being. — Abhijit Naskar

One's manner of living, is a matter of life — Elio Melo

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

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience. — Kilroy J. Oldster

One who knows the Self, knows God. — Abhijit Naskar

You believe I'm this way because I made a choice to
extinguish the light in people's lives? Because it revealed my darkness, therefore my pain of self-awareness? Au contra ire, Padre. Think of me as an inevitable stage in human evolution.
My pure entropy simply conflicts with your naive vision of goodness. Extremes such as you and I have to be locked in combat. It is as natural for evil to hate good as it is for good to hate evil. Wouldn't you agree? — David McCaffrey

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped. — Abhijit Naskar

The New Age is not one of bells and whistles and mystical special effects. It is not a fantasy state driven by the alignments of planets or the power of crystals, nor a metaphysical rising to higher plains of consciousness by virtue of chanting esoteric mantras. It will not feature the arrival of a thunderbolt-wielding god, ready to set up a final judgment by reviving hordes of old, decayed corpses. The real New Age is a simple, but stunningly profound, awareness that one's Self and all that one encounters are two aspects of the same, singular Essence. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you. — Abhijit Naskar

Wisdom begins in knowing the self. — Abhijit Naskar

What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become. — Stefan Molyneux

When you fail to be your own boss,
You are giving somebody else the contract. — Richard Marcel I.

Meditate upon yourself and you'll find bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means. — Abhijit Naskar

All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind. — Abhijit Naskar

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. — Rumi

Remember the Creator in the days of your youth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't know the direction in which you are going, the deep silence of you heart will let you know. — Debasish Mridha

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes' argument "I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God. — Abhijit Naskar

What I think I am saying is that phenomenal consciousness - the raw feel of experience - is invisible to conventional scientific scrutiny and will forever remain so. It is, by definition, subjective - where as science, by definition, adopts an objective stance. You can't be in two places at once. You either experience consciousness "from the inside" ([...]) or you view it "from the outside" ([...]). Science can study the neural activity, the bodily states, the environmental conditions, and the outward behaviours - including verbal behaviours that stand for different states of awareness ([...]), but the quality - the feel - of our experiences remains forever private and therefore out of bounds of scientific analysis. I can't see a way round this. Privateness is a fundamental constituent of consciousness. — Paul Broks

Pray daily for your family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life should be full of- Compassion, Peace, Companionship, Honor, Love, Honesty, Joy, Rapture, Euphoria, Friendship, Family, Spiritual Enrichment, Enlightenment, Trust, Truth, Loyalty, Passion, Cultural Enrichment, Unity, Serenity, Zen, Wonder, Respect, Beauty of All Kinds, Balance of all Creation, Philosophy, Adventure, Art, Happiness, Bliss, Serendipity, Kismet, Fantasy, Positivity, Yin, Yang, Color, Variety, Excitement, Sharing, Fun, Sound, Paradise, Magick, Tenderness, Strength, Devotion, Courage, Conviction, Responsibility, Wisdom, Justice, Satisfaction, Fulfillment, Purpose, Mystery, Healing, Learning, Virtue, History, Creativity, Imagination, Receptiveness and Faith. For through these things you are One with your Creator. — Solange Nicole

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

Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most. — Dr Robin Lincoln Wood

Seek spirituality of thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils. — Abhijit Naskar

Excuses are a promise of repetition. — Stefan Molyneux

A man woke up at midnight and wanted to smoke. Therefore he looked for some fire, for which he went to a neighbor's house and knocked at the door. The neighbor opened the door and asked him what he wanted. The man said, I wish to smoke. Can you give me a little fire? The neighbor replied, O.M.G.! What the heck is wrong with you? You have taken so much trouble to come and wake us up at the middle of the night, while in your own hand you have a lantern! The God that human beings so keenly seek, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it. — Abhijit Naskar

The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth. — Abhijit Naskar

How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves. — Justin Young

Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow. — Abhijit Naskar

the subject of free will another debated topic
do we or don't we have the ability to pick?
greatly controlled by mind at lower levels of consciousness
almost non-existent, one's free will is notably less
at this level one's actions are purely reactionary
lacking self-awareness, animal instincts are primary
not going along with the mind, free will increases
then higher up, it's surrendered until it ceases
thus, there both is and is not the capacity to choose
even when we do it's limited by one's views
choosing alternatively, with a mind conditioned and bound
free will, then, is at best constrained and drowned — Jarett Sabirsh

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself. — Marcus Aurelius

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

Time is a valuable wealth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act. — Hermann Hesse

Once you reach the brink of your will power, you have two options - either give up, or keep going. That decision decides whether you'll reach your goal. — Abhijit Naskar

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

When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move. — Muriel Barbery

We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life. — Kilroy J. Oldster