Quotes about Self-awareness

Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.

Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have? You are already the richest person on Earth.

You discover that the main cause of your suffering is the seed of anger in you, because it has been watered too often, by yourself and by other people.

This is why, to be happy [...] we need to take some time each day to sit down, look into ourselves, and identify the kind of energy that's motivating us and where it is pushing us.

Everything is in your own heart.

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

When we look deeply and honestly at our own suffering, energies, and views, we find a peace that comes from being comfortable in our own bodies. But our true home is not only inside us. Once we have become comfortable in ourselves, then we can begin listening deeply to the suffering of our loved ones, and begin understanding their experiences and views. Then we can become a true home for each other.

We blame our suffering on another person or group, or on bad luck, but outside conditions are not the reason it appears. Our suffering was already there.

The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless. We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war within ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'