Quotes About Awareness

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

The flowering of love is meditation.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?

Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information … explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

Seven hundred thousand people in our society (and their families) who will experience stroke this year. (p.xiv)

For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination.

Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know.

Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life.

He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17

Welles later insisted that his point, all along, had been to raise Americans' awareness about the perils of radio in an age of propaganda. "People suspect what they read in the newspaper," he said, but "when radio came . . . anything that came through that new machine was believed.