#aware

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. ↗

— Rollo May

#self-awareness #age

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ↗

— Malcolm X

#reading #change

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#change

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre. ↗

— Howard Barker

#aware #dramatists #element #expect #far

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it. ↗

— Attallah Shabazz

#truth #change

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. But if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#changing #different #inattention #life #loss-of-focus

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#mindfulness #soul-healing #spiritual-healing #change

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#be #let-it-be #mindfulness #moment #change

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#change #consc #conscious-awareness #consciouses #rasheed-ogunlaru