Quotes about Self-awareness

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

Grow me, I pray, into an emotionally mature adult through the Holy Spirit's power.

Allow yourself to experience the full weight of your feelings. Allow them without censoring them. Then you can reflect and thoughtfully decide what to do with them. Trust God to come to you through them. This is the first step in the hard work of discipleship.

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The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are. We unconsciously live someone else's life, or at least someone else's expectations for us. This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with God, and ultimately to others.

Using God to run from God Ignoring anger, sadness, and fear Dying to the wrong things Denying the impact of the past on the

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

While I was disciplined in spiritual practices, the people closest to me (starting with my wife, Geri) did not experience me as more loving with each passing year.

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone."17