self awareness on Enlightenment

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

Ancient Lens What can we learn from the historical context? The Books of the Psalms and David The Book of Psalms is divided into five books, like the five books of the Torah. While it is not obvi...

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To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...

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.

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...

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

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

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

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

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.

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.

Charles Babbage (1792-1871) was a British mathematician and inventor known for his enjoyment of talking. At one particular dinner, Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish polymath was going on and on about the v...

The final mystery is oneself.

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...

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

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 believe that you have already reached perfect sanctification, R. C. Sproul says you must do one of two things: 1. “reduce the demands of God’s law to such a low level that they can obey them” or 2....