Quotes About Self-awareness

whatever thoughts and emotions arise, and as best you can without taking any of it personally, as if the thoughts were merely sounds, or weather patterns in the mind.

You certainly have to be ready for meditation. You have to come to it at the right time in your life, at a point where you are ready to listen carefully to your own voice, to your own heart, to your own breathing

What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are

Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When

Right in that or any moment of non-doing, you are already OK, already perfect, in the sense of perfectly who and what you are. And therefore, right in that moment you are already at home in a profound way, far beyond who you think you are and the ideas and opinions that may so shape and sometimes severely limit your view of the larger whole.

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are us.

Meditace je opravdu jediná lidská ?innost, ve které se nesnažíte dostat nÄ›kam jinam, ale prostÄ› si dovolíte z?stat tam, kde jste, a takoví, jací jste. Je to hoÃ…â"¢ká medicína, která se Å¡patnÄ› polyká, když se vám nelíbí, kde jste a co se kolem vás dÄ›je, ale v takových pÃ…â"¢ípadech je její užívání obzvláÅ¡Å¥ užite?né.

Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.

There is no successful escaping from yourself in the long run, only transformation

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not "you" or "reality." For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's "the truth," then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it's doing for you these days, or what it's not, or you want to convince someone else how wonderful it would be for them, just look at it as more thinking and go meditate some more. The impulse will pass and everybody will be better off—especially you.

Le mot bouddha signifie celui ou celle qui s'est éveillé à sa propre nature.

You certainly have to be ready for meditation. You have to come to it at the right time in your life, at a point where you are ready to listen carefully to your own voice, to your own heart, to your own breathing—to just be present for them and with them, without having to go anywhere or make anything better or different. This is hard work.

We live immersed in a world of constant doing. Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing, or, put otherwise, with the world of being.

We see that thoughts, when brought into and held in awareness in this way, readily lose their power to dominate and dictate our responses to life, no matter what their content and emotional charge. They then become workable rather than imprisoning. And thus, we become a bit freer in the knowing and the recognizing of them as events in the field of awareness.

To, co vypadá jako slabost, je ve skute?nosti vaÅ¡e síla. A to, co vypadá jako síla, je ?asto slabost, snaha skrýt strach. Je to jen hra nebo fasáda, aÃ…Â¥ p?sobí sebepÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ivÄ›ji na ostatní, nebo dokonce i na vás.

Either wherever you go there you are or wherever you go there you aren't.

If you are mindful as emotional storms occur, perhaps you will see in yourself an unwillingness to accept things as they already are, whether you like them or not. Perhaps that part of you that does see this has, in one way or another, already come to terms with what has happened or with your situation. Perhaps, at the same time, it recognizes that your feelings still need to play themselves out, that they are not ready to accept the situation or to calm down, and that this too is all right.

Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.

On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others.

In the end you only answer to yourself!

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.