Self Awareness Quotes Quotes & Sayings

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way. — C. JoyBell C.

To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog). — Dada Bhagwan

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect. — Chris Prentiss

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

It takes extraordinary mental discipline to transmit human experience without perversion. Truth telling is unnatural. Lying is an important aspect of humanity. We lie to other people to prevent hurt feelings and we deceive ourselves in order to protect our noble sense of being a good person. Dishonesty and inaccuracy preserves our quest seeking uninterrupted personal pleasure. I shall eschew pleasure seeking and cultivate precision of mind and moral character that precious truth telling necessitates. Reading and writing, along with observing nature and studious reflection on vivid personal experiences is the process methodology that will bring me closest to discovering inviolate verity of existence and becoming a doyen for all the immaculate truth, beauty, and goodness in this world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing. — Pawan Mishra

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! — C. JoyBell C.

The path of light is self awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Learn to say no, know when to say yes, and use the words 'I choose.' It is the key that will open you to limitless manifestation of your beingness. — Rene Gaudette

Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n — Nikki Rowe

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch? — Deborah Brodie

Feelings naturally arise as passing states of awareness and are not part of us - rather, they give feedback and then expire. — Deborah Sandella

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air. — C. JoyBell C.

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

The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause. — Martha Char Love

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception. — Rene Gaudette

Success needs no authorization, yet failure requires permission. — T.F. Hodge

I had battled my own demons that day, facing down the thing that imprisoned me since the accident-a scar and the diffidence it created inside of me. But it was just a physical blemish, not something that made me who I am. It took a mentally disturbed murderer who gave me a sneak peak at death to show me that. — Pamela Crane

To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The whole world has the illusory awareness of, 'I am the doer'. In reality, everyone's karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self. — Dada Bhagwan

What you feel is what you get, regardless of what you think! — Deborah Sandella

Knowledge of all living beings of the entire world is in only one Soul. But the knowledge that sees the ego and everything, as objects to be known (gneya); only that knowledge is called as the 'Knowledge'. However, that is partial Knowledge but only from that moment it is regarded as real applied focused awareness. Where there is Knowledge, the focused applied awareness may be partial or complete. — Dada Bhagwan

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

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. — Amit Ray

Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom. — Deborah Sandella

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

Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. — Abhijit Naskar

We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises. — Heather K. O'Hara

Reflecting on various aspects of our lives is essential for a person to grow and adjust to changing phases in their life. Self-analysis entails examining a person's existing level of self-esteem and documenting the inner voice that speaks to a person, which is frequently either affirming of self-defeating. Failure to periodically engage in self-analysis, make crucial revisions in our personas, and modify our thinking patterns when we encounter transformative events in life can lead to mood disorders, burnout, and other emotional maladies. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again. — Pawan Mishra

Life constantly challenges us; it's not personal, just the natural process of growth and evolution. — Deborah Sandella

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. — Enza Vita

When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought. — Enza Vita

The head is in charge of thinking; the heart is in charge of feeling; and the spirit realizes the creative, infinitely thriving power of life while imagination acts as translator and synthesizer. — Deborah Sandella

Self-love is self liberation — Lailah Gifty Akita

Neutral experiences are easily forgotten. — Deborah Sandella

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

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

Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Awareness' will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride. — Dada Bhagwan

Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves. — 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

When your concern is about future safety, anxiety arises. — Deborah Sandella

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it. — C. JoyBell C.

The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices. — Stacie Hammond

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

Human being's possess the cognitive ability to survey and study the biological and cultural constraints that influence us in order to gain an enhanced understanding of who each of us are. Comprehension of what comprises a self allows human beings to monitor and regulate their thoughts and actions and therefore revise and modify their sense of self. How much conscious control we assert over our minds as well as what decisions through default we leave essentially unregulated and in the sole providence of the unconscious mind determines our self-identity. Self-identity in turns affects personal decision-making, which alters our external world. The combined impact of millions of people making conscious choices exerts a profound impact upon reality, the physical world that is constantly in flux. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The person who wants to progress on the path of Vitrag (the enlightened ones), should keep the focus of the awareness to progress from the non-auspicious (bad) to the auspicious (good). And if one wants to go to final Liberation [moksha], he should keep 'pure focus as the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog). The person, who wants to go to Moksha, should not concern himself with the auspicious (good) or the inauspicious (bad). He should keep them both as the things to be cleared out. — Dada Bhagwan

The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'! — Dada Bhagwan

We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. — Abhijit Naskar

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature. — Enza Vita

Feelings are spontaneous and organic like breath. Allow them to leave and you'll know the same relief as when you exhale. — Deborah Sandella

Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are. — Enza Vita

I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday. — Rob Martin

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way. — Enza Vita

It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved. — Kellie Elmore

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. — Michael A. Singer

Treat me as I am,
and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become. — Karl Schmidt

When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone. — Deborah Sandella

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

Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind. — Rob Martin

Sometimes the greatest act of love is to walk away, so that the other person can find their true self and direction again. — Auliq Ice

It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You're worth the work! — Kirstin Leigh

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

The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one's own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, 'I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma). — Dada Bhagwan

Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul). — Dada Bhagwan

Relationships without a Divine Aim always "break up," for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness -- the undoing and releasing of the ego. Belief in the ego prevents awareness of True Union and Intimacy. The underlying fear of Intimacy and Union is the ego's fear of loss of itself, the 'personal self' and the 'personal world. — David Hoffmeister

Welcome the hidden messages in pain. — Deborah Sandella

Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past. — Rob Martin

It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities. — Abhijit Naskar

Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective. — Deborah Sandella

Respect the past, and prepare for the future by taking action in the present. — Rob Martin

We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it. — Ed Strachar

Both thinking over feeling provide vital feedback to support your survival and help you flourish. — Deborah Sandella

But often it is a seemingly irresolvable relationship that teaches us the most, once we're willing to be vulnerable and honest, once we're willing to connect with what Chogyam Trungpa called "the genuine heart of sadness." As warriors in training we do our best to hold the person in our heart without any hypocrisy. One thing we can do with a difficult relationship is to place a picture of the person somewhere we will see it often and think, "I wish for your deepest well-being". Or we can write down the person's name, along with the aspiration that they may be safe, may be happy, may live in peace.
Regardless of what specific action we take, our aspiration is to benefit the other person and wish them well. — Pema Chodron

As adults, our central motivators continue to be maintaining comfort and avoiding discomfort. — Deborah Sandella

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. — Kellie Elmore

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

Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan). — Dada Bhagwan

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose. — Michael R. French

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it. — Enza Vita

IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET — Mo Stegall

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

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person's understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Whenever possible, choose peace. — Donna Goddard

You can regain your inner peace with a daily prayer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi). — Dada Bhagwan

What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet? — Debra Formo

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile. — Peprah Boasiako