self awareness on Anxiety

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

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 ...

Psychologists have estimated that we have anywhere between twelve thousand and sixty thousand thoughts a day. The majority of those—as high as 80 percent—are thought to be negative: obsessing about mi...

I fyou look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest.

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

One of the dangers of living in a constant state of distraction is that we never go to the bottom of our pain, our sadness, our emptiness, which means we never find that rock-bottom place of the peace...

Holy God, You are the anchor amidst our fears. You know the sins we can’t even admit to ourselves. You show your faithfulness even when we reject You. You offer grace even when we offer judgment. Forg...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

The final mystery is oneself.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

In the heat of leadership, with the adrenaline pumping, it is easy to convince yourself that you are not subject to the normal human frailties that can defeat ordinary mortals. You begin to act as if ...

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

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

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

What is the shape of your pain? Is your pain a gaping wound? Is it stuffed into the back corner of a closet, or is it neatly categorized and filed away with annotations that no one but you understand?...

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

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?

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.

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...

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.