Guy Farmer · Self-Awareness Blog

"I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:10:47 -0700

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love.”

- Anna Akhmatova, from “The Akhmatova Journals” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Self-Awareness Helps You Celebrate Your Amazing Beauty

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:09:26 -0700

Self-Awareness Helps You Celebrate Your Amazing Beauty

"I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up"

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:41:17 -0700

“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up”

- Shane Koyczan, The Student (via loveyourchaos)

End. A Poem

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:40:55 -0700

End. A Poem

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:23:30 -0700

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

- Cicero (via thehouseofrisingsun)

Self-Awareness and Simplifying Your Life

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:19:47 -0700

Self-Awareness and Simplifying Your Life

biosthete: We humans are dissatisfied and anxious because we’re inwardly at war....

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:41:00 -0700

biosthete: We humans are dissatisfied and anxious because we’re inwardly at war....:

biosthete:

We humans are dissatisfied and anxious because we’re inwardly at war. True inner peace eludes us because we’re disconnected from the compassion inherent to consciousness itself. This is much more than a feeling. It’s like an immense, unmovable background of friendliness, present at the root of…

The Road to Self-Awareness

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:40:11 -0700

The Road to Self-Awareness

"The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:42:36 -0700

““The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take them into account.””

- Carl G. Jung (via heartbloodspirit)

Your Quality of Life with Self-Awareness

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:41:25 -0700

Your Quality of Life with Self-Awareness

"When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:01:12 -0700

“When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.”

- John O’Donohue
(via significances)

Your Leadership Style Relates to Your Level of Self-Awareness

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:59:42 -0700

Your Leadership Style Relates to Your Level of Self-Awareness

"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:31:49 -0700

““Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.””

- Frida Kahlo (via morosity)

Political Correctness and Your Level of Self-Awareness

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:29:43 -0700

Political Correctness and Your Level of Self-Awareness

"He buries gold who hides truth."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:49:43 -0700

“He buries gold who hides truth.”

- Pythagoras (via heartbloodspirit)

Self-Awareness Means Thinking about Others

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:48:32 -0700

Self-Awareness Means Thinking about Others

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:28:13 -0700

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

- Carl Rogers (via emotional-algebra)

Things that Self-Awareness Is Not

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:22:59 -0700

Things that Self-Awareness Is Not

"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:58:32 -0700

““Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.””

- Cheryl Strayed (via creatingaquietmind)

Self-Awareness Helps You Heal Your Hurts

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:55:47 -0700

Self-Awareness Helps You Heal Your Hurts