Quotes about Self-awareness

When you heed only your lion, you will find yourself overextended and exhausted. When you take notice only of your lamb, you will easily become a victim of your need for other people's attention.

When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us.

If prayer, understood as an intimate relationship with God, is indeed the basis of all relationships—to ourselves as well as to others.

We often are very, very busy, and usually very tired as a result, but we should ask ourselves how much of our reading and talking, visiting and lobbying, lecturing and writing, is more part of an impulsive reaction to the changing demands of our surroundings than an action that was born out of our own center.

There is great pain and suffering in the world. But the pain hardest to bear is your own.

He who thinks that he is finished, is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.

To pray means to stop expecting from God the same small-mindedness which you discover in yourself.

The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.