self awareness on Blindness

If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

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...

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...

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

I (Elyse) have lived less than a quarter of a mile from Interstate 15, one of the busiest freeways in California, for about eight years now, and because of that I’ve had firsthand experience with what...

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

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

Holy God, we realize that You know us more intimately than we know ourselves. We come before You now asking You to show us our sin, to make us aware of our failings, to open our eyes to our brokenness...

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

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

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

He is a bold surgeon, they say, whose hand does not tremble when he performs an operation upon his own person; and he is often equally bold who does not hesitate to pull off the mysterious veil of sel...

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

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 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/

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

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...

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...

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

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

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

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

The final mystery is oneself.

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.

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