Self awareness Quotes
"Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs."
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
"You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are"
"I don't like defining myself. I just am."
"I'm not perfect. I make mistakes."
"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections"
"The whole point of the psychedelic experience is to challenge the concept of who you are."
"If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it"
"It is only when you realign your mind to one-pointedness that you will be able to reflect the divine vision within"
"When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are."
"Build me a son O Lord who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat and humble and gentle in victory"
"The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever"
"There are only two kinds of men; the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous"
"People are always far more interested in themselves than in anyone else. Your book will most probably interest them if it helps them see themselves in a new light"
"Fear is not a real thing. It is a product of thoughts you create."