Awareness Quotes - Page 3

• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sexy, Inspiration, Self

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fear

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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• The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Destiny, Marijuana

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• Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

  Laozi

  Oneness, Perception, Great Teacher

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Karma, Peace

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Giving Up, Self, Names

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• As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

  Alex Grey

  Independent, Levels, Dimensions

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

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• They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

  T. S. Eliot

  Voice, Speak, Planes

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Thinking, Conscious

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• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  Serj Tankian

  Our Society, Injustice, Type

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

  Rick Warren

  Forgiveness, Reality, People

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• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Yoga, Mean

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

  Thornton Wilder

  Decision, Freedom To Choose, Your Freedom

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

  Judith Wright

  Emotional, Expression, Feelings

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• It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Body, Divinity

  "Yoga Connects You to the Perfection You Seek" by Vyda Bielkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Sight, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.186, Vintage

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Freedom

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

  Gary Zukav

  Perspective, May, Matter

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Nature, Attention

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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