#self-awareness

"When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped."

"The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self."

"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."

"Enlightenment is the key to empowerment."

"If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air."

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

"Be control of your mind."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right."

"Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one."

"There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."

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

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET"

"For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith."