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The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man.

In the intro sequence of the beloved children’s show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood , the first interior shot does not show the host. Instead, in the beat before Fred Rogers appears on the screen si...

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

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

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

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

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 proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Without the binding force of memory, experience would be splintered into as many fragments as there are moments in life. Without the mental time travel provided by memory, we would have no awareness o...

Preaching Commentary Peter's and Isaiah's Confessions Jesus calling the disciples from their fishing appears in Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20, and Luke 5:1-11. Yet only Luke makes the beaut...

Leader: The good news in Christ is that when we face ourselves and God with the awareness of our need, we are given grace to grow, and courage to continue the journey. Friends, believe the good news o...

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...

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.

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

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 ...

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

The final mystery is oneself.

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

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

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...

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

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

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

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

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

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.

"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."