Quotes about Self-awareness

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.

You can't run away from yourself.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. —RICHARD ROHR

We know Satan will attack weak spots first. Forty days of fasting left Jesus famished, so Satan began with the topic of bread. Jesus' stomach was empty, so to the stomach Satan turned. Where are you empty? Are you hungry for attention, craving success, longing for intimacy? Be aware of your weaknesses. Bring them to God before Satan brings them to you. Satan will tell you to turn stones into bread (Matt 4:3). In other words, meet your own needs, take matters into your own hands.