Vernon Howard Quotes

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.

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

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

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.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

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

Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.

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.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

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.

It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

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.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.