Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

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.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

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

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.