Self-awareness

“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.”

“How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle!”

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ... The very people who are most self-dissatisfied and crave most for a new identity have the least self-awareness. They have turned away from an unwanted self and hence never had a good look at it.”

“Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness.”

“I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.”

“One self-approving hour whole years out-weighsOf stupid starers and of loud huzzas.”

“The psyche is awareized energy, in a state of constant creativity; a psychic pattern of multidimensionally expressed; each point within it changing in relationship to all other points, and thus altering the entire pattern or model. Each self is immersed in the psyche, yet immersed in its own individuality simultaneously, experiencing reality in time and out of it at once.”

“Speak no more:As will not leave their tinct.”

“Go to your bosom;Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

“When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”

“Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.”

“Be present as the watcher of your mind.”

““I am bored.” Who knows this?”

“There is a luxury in self-dispraise;To meditative spleen a grateful feast.”

“'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours;And how they might have borne more welcome news.”

“As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself With their answers I give to thee.”

“Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.”