Self Awareness Quotes - Page 8

• Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Inspirational, Voice, Personal Growth

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• Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Self, Forever

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• The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Exercise, Meditation, Mind

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.38, Nilgiri Press

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• Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doing You, Agents, Patterns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.71, Penguin

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• What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

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  Ram Dass

  Levels, Evolution, Be Here Now

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.215, Harmony

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• In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Self, Effort

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• Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

  Michael Persinger

  Self, Next, Assumption

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• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Self, Effort

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• It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

  Leland Ryken

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Silly, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.135, Penguin

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• Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

  David Brin

  Smart, Successful, Self

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.193, Spectra

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• What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Differences, Doe

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• Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Self, Patterns

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• The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gossip, World, Awareness

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• The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

  Bret Stephens

  Self, People, President

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• In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essentials, Way, Physics

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Study, Awareness, Process

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Reality, Men, Expression

  Anagarika Govinda (1987). “Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism”, Random House (UK)

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• All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Elude Us, Hands, Awareness

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Self, People, Too Much

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• Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

  Stephen Covey

  Honesty, Self, Asking

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

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  Ram Dass

  Stuff, Awareness, Our Lives

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.55, Harmony

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• Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

  Horace

  Hurt, Eye, Years

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• People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of the body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Self, Ecosystems

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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