Self Awareness Quotes

"Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else." "Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at its core is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else." "Meditation is the process of learning to meet your thoughts and feelings with interest and kindness rather than fear and self-judgment." "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering" "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls" "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not" "I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me" "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet." "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers." "I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People who lie are afraid. Afraid of what they don't know or what others will think." "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame " "If you want to be at ease, the first thing is to accept yourself the way you are, but strive to be a better version of yourself in the next moment." "Your thoughts and emotions may keep you fully engaged throughout the day, but they have nothing to do with who you are." "The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens." "I don't have time is just another way of saying it's not a priority" "You have to excavate your own identity and where it is you've come from to be able to violent history " "The interior life is a real life and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world " "People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become " "Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."