Observe Yourself Quotes

#1. As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Observe yourself floating in space,
Pure and unadulterated as at birth,
Neither man nor woman ...
Without name or title ...
Pure life ... is what you observe.
You are infinitely peaceful,
Within a space inviolable to all,
A space of pure consciousness ...

Ilchi Lee

#3. Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

Frederick Lenz

#6. When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Barry Long

#7. Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

Srikumar Rao

#8. Find out if you're still human, observe yourself from another planet

Benny Bellamacina

#9. Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

Barbara Marciniak

#10. It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#11. 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.

Marcus Allen

#12. That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Marcus Allen

#13. To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.

Queen Latifah

#15. We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

Susan Orlean

#16. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Allen Ginsberg

#17. To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

Martha Beck

#18. People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

Wendy Starland

#19. Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

A.E. Samaan

#20. You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed.

Jay Woodman

#21. If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

#22. Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny The Elder

#23. I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

Cillian Murphy

#24. If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.

David Dunn

#25. Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

Timothy Ferriss

#26. Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

Jonathan Price

#27. The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Eric Church

#28. Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Madeline Kahn

#29. The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#30. Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

Idries Shah

#31. The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#32. Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#33. Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali

Idries Shah

#34. Every time you observe you give yourself the opportunity to learn.

Libby Fischer Hellmann

#35. Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Gautama Buddha