Best Quotes on Self Awareness

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

I’ve learned… that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent, you will start feeling your way.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible—only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; ourselves and not the world, as we presently conceive it, but the world as it really is.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

The mind is a beautiful servant but a dangerous master.

Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

Mindfulness is the ability to see what’s happening in your head right now, without getting carried away by it.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Meditate. It won't be fun but it will surface what you need to deal with.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.