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Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. -- Richard Leakey
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. -- Frederick Lenz
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. -- A. E. van Vogt
A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward. -- Nick McDonell
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. -- Dalai Lama
One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness. -- John Ortberg
As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke. -- Nicholas Stoller
I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is. -- Rene Russo
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. -- Ma Jian
I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. -- Tanit Phoenix
I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness. -- Mary Lambert
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. -- Nhat Hanh
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -- Norman Lindsay
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. -- James Broughton
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. -- Thomas Szasz
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. -- China Mieville
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. -- Joko Beck
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part. -- Gordon W. Allport
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. -- Caroline Knapp
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. -- Deepak Chopra
I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness. -- Geoff Johns
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery -- Gretchen Rubin
Self awareness allows you to self-correct. -- Bill Hybels
Self-awareness includes awareness of your body. -- Deepak Chopra
Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness. -- Mike White
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. -- Charles Stross
Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness. -- Rand Olson
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. -- Bill Hybels
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends. -- Harold S. Kushner
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. -- Don DeLillo
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. -- Noel Carroll
You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor. -- Cate Blanchett
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. -- Virginia Woolf
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. -- George A. Sheehan
I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help. -- Deepak Chopra
Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues. -- Curtis Hanson
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow. -- Steven Kotler
When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny. -- Merrill Markoe
Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own. -- Michio Kaku
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions. -- Stephen Covey
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. -- Billie Jean King
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion -- Billie Jean King
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. -- David Quammen
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead. -- Bonnie Marcus
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. -- Scott Belsky
Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions. -- Deepak Chopra
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom. -- Rollo May
Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness. -- Erwin McManus
You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. -- Marianne Williamson
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf. -- Annie Lennox
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. -- Deepak Chopra
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. -- Raisa Gorbacheva
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. -- Deepak Chopra
I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world. -- Zulay Henao
Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness. -- Julie Winkle Giulioni
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. -- Clarence Day
To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God. -- Rodney Collin
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. -- Francis Spufford
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. -- Ramana Maharshi
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness. -- Sri Chinmoy
Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image. -- Deepak Chopra
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. -- Carlos Castaneda
The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth. -- James Van Praagh
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited. -- Barbara Marciniak
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. -- David Brin
Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are. -- Mooji
Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness. -- Joanie Connell
One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. -- Ronald Rolheiser
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected. -- Toni Sorenson
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. -- Steve Martin
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood. -- Daniel Goleman
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that. -- Deepak Chopra
I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage. -- Glennon Melton
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? -- Vernor Vinge
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. -- Dan Simmons
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about. -- Fred Alan Wolf
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. -- Frank Herbert
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. -- Lawrence Bossidy
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen. -- Richard Louv
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability. -- Moby
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. -- M. Russell Ballard
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else. -- Bryan Kest
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start? -- Ruben Papian
If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness. -- Dov Davidoff
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0. -- Jimmy Fallon
Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are. -- Ruben Papian
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history. -- Garry Kasparov
To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one. -- John de Ruiter
Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness. -- Robbie Coltraine
To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference. -- Vironika Tugaleva
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self. -- Aberjhani
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad. -- Debbie Ford
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change. -- William E. Rees
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies. -- Stephen Covey
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills â??self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter mostâ?? are the foundation for self-control. -- Kelly McGonigal
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it. -- Frederick Lenz
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. -- Ma Jian
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets. -- Dalai Lama
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it. -- Frederick Lenz
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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