Boris Pasternak Quotes

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

I find myself fascinating.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I don't see outside of me.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I have no inner monologue.

I don't analyse myself.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

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.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am not very introspective.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.