self awareness on Attitude

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

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

Over the years, I’ve read about many leaders who failed ethically in their leadership. Can you guess what they had in common? They all thought it could never happen to them. There was a false sense of...

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...

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

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

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

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

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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?

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...

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

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.

When we observe evil, sinful behavior from a distance, the inclination is simply to see people as acting with malicious intent. We assume they are “bad people.” But often the motivations that lead to ...

As I have worked to clarify my calling, I have learned to pay attention to my energy levels in response to different activities. If I experience a particular activity as being inordinately draining, I...

The final mystery is oneself.

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."