life on planet earth on Self-Awareness

The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...

To know oneself, is above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against the Truth, and not the other way around.

Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

"One learns of the pain of others by suffering own’s own pain, my father would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul. And it is important to know of pain, he said."

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

God, always the same, let me know myself, let me know Thee!

Dear Everybody, We have a serious problem: All of us think we’re good people. But Jesus says we’re not. Sincerely, Brant P. Hansen …PS. IF YOU THINK I’M WRONG—about how we think we’re good people...

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The examen makes us aware of moments that at first we might easily pass by as insignificant, moments that ultimately can give direction for our lives.

I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

Recently at church I asked our congregation, “How many of you battle with self-deception?” A few people in the crowd raised their hands. Then I asked, “How many of you know someone who is very self-de...

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, exte...

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

We think our problem is with God, but remember, God is perfect. Our problem is really with ourselves.

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that ...

I’m a college professor — I have been for almost a decade. I work reasonably hard at my job, and I think I do it fairly well. In fact, in my honest and solitary moments, when there’s no occasion false...