2,872 Quotes About Self-awareness

At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired.

Nature has placed in your heart such strength to which there is no match.

My child reflect the treatment I give.

I love art and music. But without that and, above all, without people, it would be pure nature, and I derive from Nature.

Don’t you know your best side shows when you are sensual? To be sensual is to be unaware. It’s to not think. It’s to get out of your head and into your body.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

To be a male is a matter of chance, to be a man is a process indeed

The idealist constructs of strictly logical dichotomies, such as rationalism and empiricism, ignore how much everything is so deeply connected to the point that they are reflective and ultimately separate us from everything else, including the divine, the universe, nature, each other, and from ourselves.

Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience.