personal development on Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Paradoxically, if we wish to become more aware of others and their concerns, there is perhaps no better work we can do than developing self-awareness. Consider the findings of a team of psychologists ...

Empathy often goes hand-in-hand with self-awareness. The people who are good at empathy are not only good at picking up on other people’s feelings, but they—they’re also good at reflecting on their ow...

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

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.

The final mystery is oneself.

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

We are not always comfortable with the true self that lies deep within us.

The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie.

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.

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...

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...

“Know yourself” is good advice. But to know ourselves doesn’t mean to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we want to know ourselves as if we were machines that could be taken apart and put back together at w...

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

We spend the whole of our whole lives watching ourselves. But when a man becomes meek he has finished/

Know yourself and you will have a wholesome fear of God; know him and you will also love him.

"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.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

One helpful, practical tool to understand our blind spot is what’s called the Johari Window, an image developed as a counseling tool in the 1950s. Subjects were given a list of fifty-six adjectives, a...