Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
You're surroundings can either be a reflection of you or you can end up being a reflection of your surroundings. Ultimately, one will occur noticeably or unnoticeably.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
With strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain and weather any storm.
Life is gift. Accepts the sacred existence.
Still, I know how to use the little I have, my flat stomach and rather flatter chest, my slightly bowed, but strong and flexible legs. I produce plenty of phlegm. I have clever hands and a stare that...
Yes! I'm ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I ! And I always have a piece...
When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second...
The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.
The quest for self-discovery is the desire to know thy soul.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already...
My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the...
But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.
We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both wit...
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of bein...
And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?