self awareness on Self-Importance

In his poem Cocktail Party , T. S. Eliot captures a fundamental truth about human nature and the source of much hurt in the world. People’s actions are rarely driven by outright malice—intended t...

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

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.

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...

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

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

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

The final mystery is oneself.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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

I find myself saying it over and over again. When I do, people often laugh, but I’m really quite serious. No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you...

I’m a college professor — I have been for almost a decade. I work reasonably hard at my job, and I think I do it fairly well. In fact, in my honest and solitary moments, when there’s no occasion false...

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...

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

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

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

Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves, we must become ourselves. For no...

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

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

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

“Know yourself” is good advice. But to know ourselves doesn’t mean to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we want to know ourselves as if we were machines that could be taken apart and put back together at w...

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 unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

"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."

Recently at church I asked our congregation, “How many of you battle with self-deception?” A few people in the crowd raised their hands. Then I asked, “How many of you know someone who is very self-de...

Researchers at the University of London concluded that “a substantial majority of individuals believe themselves to be morally superior to the average person” and that this illusion of ours is “unique...

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

Rules for Self Discovery: What we want most; What we think about most; How we use our money; What we do with our leisure time; The company we enjoy; Who and what we admire; What we laugh at.

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