2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

A progressive society is a self-scrutinizing society.

It is difficult to unlearn a lifetime of habitability and then to comprehend suddenly to unfamiliar, strange, even marvellous things. To allow for surprise and improvisation is to begin the apprenticeship of learning the way that is no way.

I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it.

Knowing ourselves is the beginning of all transformation. Of ourselves. Of our relationships. Of our world.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.