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• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Creativity, Past

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• Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Simple, Oneness, Secret

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2002). “Working with Oneness”, p.12, The Golden Sufi Center

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• All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Vision, Unseen

  H. P. Blavatsky, W. Q. Judge (1998). “Occult Tales”, p.207, Health Research Books

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

  Matthew Kahn

  Lying, Joy, Existence

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• Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

  Rabia Basri

  Doubt, Awakening

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• Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Self, Knowing, Blind

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• We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

  Thubten Chodron

  Confusion, Mind, Able

  Thubten Chodron (2016). “Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• Humility and gratitude go hand in hand... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Powerful

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• Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Mean, Hysteria

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• God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work.

  Jean Royer

  Faith, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

  William E. Rees

  Inspiring, Intelligent, Self

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• Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

  Pauline Oliveros

  Musical, Listening, Matter

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• Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Abundance Of Love, Self

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• Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it's doing. Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. Our attempts to direct this force only interferes with it. Our willingness to relax into it allows it to work on our behalf.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Relax, Sides

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Grace, Depth, Sacred

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• Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  Bob Proctor

  Happiness, Creative, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 16, 2011

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• Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perception, Indirect, Sense Perception

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Elephants, Mind

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• Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

  Charles Stross

  Emotional, Self, Brilliant

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.439, Penguin

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• Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

  Frans de Waal

  Empathy, Feelings, Different

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• Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Two, Listening

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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