self-awareness

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

A newcomer to a city should first look for a suitable room for resting at night. After securing the room and keeping the luggage there, he or she may go out for sightseeing. Otherwise it'll be a lot of suffering to find a place to rest in the darkness of the night. Similarly, upon securing the eternal resting place in Self, one can freely roam around doing his or her daily works.

If I don__ know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.

The greatest achievement is self awareness.

At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.

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

One who knows the Self, knows God.

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

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.

We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

Conquer self before you desire to defeat others.

I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boasting, especially if I did so with that shattering discretion that was my specialty. It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in the regard to all the for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I__e told you, but also more sensitive and more skillful, a crack shot, an incomparable driver, a better lover. Even in the fields in which it was easy for me to verify my inferiority__ike tennis, for instance, in which I was but a passable partner__t was hard for me not to think that, with a little time and practice, I would surpass the best players. I admitted only superiorities in me and this explained my good will and serenity. When I was concerned with others, I was so out of pure condescension, in utter freedom, and all the credit went to me: my self-esteem would go up a degree.

It was one of those moments__hich sometimes occur only at the interval of years__hen a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.