Quotes about Self-awareness

Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.

What does matter is whether or not we take offense when we think we've been wronged, regardless of who we think we are or what costume we're wearing.

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

No matter what Jesus faced, He lived by what He knew about Himself, not by what others thought or said about Him.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.