561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

Ignorance of the self is the fear of death and knowledge the self is the death of fear.

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

A person who doesn’t understand flowers might tug on them to make them grow. A person who doesn’t speak the language of someplace might misread the locals’ sentiments and intentions. Yet you are already such a flower, and your inner locals—your emotions, your body, your thoughts—are already speaking to you. If you don’t learn the language of your experience, then how can you understand yourself? How can you help yourself?

I observe myself and thus understand the others.

Knowing yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery, acceptance, and love.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Come from the distant lands of insanity and despair to recognize the arrival of royalty that appears in the newly cleared mirrors of your eyes. Those who dare banish fear, come near and peer on the rare divinity of their own unique weird, are often revered by many strangers from afar.‬

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to under-stand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else