Awareness Quotes - Page 21

• Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Integrity, Flower

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• Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Past, Men, Dinner Plates

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Leviathan”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

  Gay Hendricks

  Lapses, Minors, Right Now

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.56, Hay House, Inc

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• it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reality, Events

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• Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

  Don DeLillo

  Running, Strong, Fall

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.81, New World Library

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• Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Thinking, Special

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• Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

  Alain de Botton

  Goal, Anxiety, Promise

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.197, Vintage

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• Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Self, Forever

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• Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pain, Reminders, Awareness Of Life

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.770, Macmillan

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• What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Jealous, Keys

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• Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Jealousy, Fire

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• Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

  Norman Cousins

  Respect, Inspire, Meaning Of Life

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

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• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Moving, Yoga

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• From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

  Rod Stryker

  Powerful, Yoga, Destiny

  "The 6-Point Method for Breaking Unhealthy Habits" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. To be one with the whole is the real success. And when that success is achieved, then you really enjoy that growth - that growth of your awareness which makes you one with the whole. That is what you have to know, is to become your whole. You are just a fragment, a segment, a cell. You have to become the whole and that can be done only through this connection.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Real

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• Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have faith in God that is the main thing which people don't understand what it means to have faith in God . That He is almighty, He does everything, He looks after everything, why should we worry? This is a very good way of life, is not to worry.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Spirituality

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.71, Image

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• Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

  Rajneesh

  Acceptance, Humanity, Spirituality

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• You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Perception

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• Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Conversation

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• Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Practice

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• Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because we see the tremendous jumps we make in awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Motivated

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