9 Quotes to Encourage Us on the Self-Awareness Journey.

Below are nine quotes that remind us how important our own inner guidance and self-awareness is. These quotes take us to the heart of the self-awareness journey and help us to feel its steady beat. I hope they encourage you along on your own path, to whatever beautiful place that path is going.

“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.”
~ Dalai Lama

“So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart is closed has global implications.”
~ Pema Chodron

“When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.”
~ Sakyong Mipham

“As long as our habit patterns are hidden backstage, they will remain unchanged. As soon as we bring them up onto the stage of our mind and shine the spotlight of awareness on them, they will inevitably change.”
~ Jan Chozen Bays

“If you don’t have garbage, you have nothing to use in order to make compost. And if you have no compost, you have nothing to nourish the flower in you. You need the suffering, the afflictions in you. Since they are organic, you know that you can transform them and make good use of them.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh-

“People will support you and help you with teachings and practices, as they have supported and helped me, but you yourself experience your unlimited potential.”
~ Pema Chodron

“As we become wiser we realize that fixing the flow of feelings doesn’t work. Primary feelings are simply feelings, and every day consists of pleasant, painful and neutral moments… Our painful experience does not represent failure.”
~ Jack Kornfield

“As far as inner transformation is concerned there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
~ Tom Robbins

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