Quotes about Self-awareness

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

That all is as thinking makes it so — and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense