personal development on Self-Consciousness

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am only for myself, who am I?

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

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

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

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...

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...

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

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

The final mystery is oneself.

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

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

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.

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

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...

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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...

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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...

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

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

Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves, we must become ourselves. For no...

Several times during the day, but especially in the morning and evening, ask yourself for a moment if you have your soul in your hands or if some passion or fit of anxiety has robbed you of it.... If ...

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

The people I know who are the most concerned about their individuality, who probe constantly into motives, who are always turned inwards toward their own reactions, usually become less and less indivi...

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 ...

People can say one thing and do something totally different. You see the darkness that is often hidden from polite society. The thing that you see is a widespread insecurity. I think people put on a f...