Quotes About Awareness

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Everything I need now is here

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.