Self awareness Quotes

"If you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else." "We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be." "At least embarrassment is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners." "Just relax and really say what you’re actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear." "The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming." "The most common form of despair is not being aware." "Your personality creates your personal reality" "What fortune has made yours is not your own." "We must not confuse the word nostalgia with depression" "To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken." "When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence." "Inner resistance to what arises creates outer resistance, therefore releasing inner resistance allows the outer to also release." "Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be." "Death is a stripping away of all that is not you." "Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself."