Melody Beattie Quotes

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

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've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

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.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

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.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

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.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

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.

And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

I think and that is all that I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.