Awareness Quotes - Page 18

• Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

  Bruce Lee

  Choices, Anxiety, Perception

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• I don't tell you what you should do or not do; I only show you who you are
  -the timeless and unchanging awareness.
  When this is firmly established inside you,
  your life will unfold spontaneously and joyously.

  Mooji

  Timeless, Unchanging, Should

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• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Ideas, Purpose

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• Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Possibility, Reservoirs

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Form, Particular

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• To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Reality, Men, Expression

  Anagarika Govinda (1987). “Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism”, Random House (UK)

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• In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essentials, Way, Physics

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gossip, World, Whole

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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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• Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Mistake, Self, Giving

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• I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.

  Suzanne Segal

  Clouds, Attachment, Perception

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• Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.

  Mooji

  Empty, Existence

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• Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Mean, Negativity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

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• Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything.
  A king does not need to go shopping in his own
  kingdom. Nor does he beg.
  Remember, you are the inner reality-pure awareness only.
  All that arises are appearances in consciousness.
  Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness.
  This is the secret.

  Mooji

  Kings, Reality, Remember You

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• The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

  Stephen Levine

  Art, Fall, Dust

  Stephen Levine (1984). “Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed”, Anchor Books

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• Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Art, Creativity, Fullness Of Life

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• When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Add

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.84, New World Library

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• Once you’re facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought.

  John de Ruiter

  Deep Within

  "From 'Who am I?' to 'What am I?'". johnderuiter.com. December 4, 2015.

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• To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Like You, Planets

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• If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Guru, Ifs

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• Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Self, Goal

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Rejoice in the abundance of being able to awaken each morning and experience a new day. Be glad to be alive, to be healthy, to have friends, to be creative, to be a living example of the joy of living. Live to your highest awareness. Enjoy your transformationa l process.

  Louise Hay

  Morning, New Day, Joy

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• Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

  Toni Packer

  Light, Taught, Separation

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Karma, Heart, Fire

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