Quotes About Awareness

Where consciousness and the unconscious intersect at the still point, that is where we are whole.

A dream tells you where you are, not what to do; or, by placing you where you are, it tells you what you are doing.

Never do anything that you don't want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.

Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self

write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant way. Set them next to each other. See what happens.

Sometimes we don't see what it is we don't want to see.

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.

never underestimate your dumbness!!

Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

No," she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: "I want them to see what they've done.

Lâcher prise, et avoir conscience qu'il n'y a aucune limite à notre façon de voir le monde et la vie, c'est la magie.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

But even if you're good at blank slating, have no expectations and no assumptions, listen well, take great notes, refrain from excessive talking, and don't spill beans—even if you're the perfect blank slater, the world outside the negotiation can still intrude on your ability to blank slate. If you're overly tired, it's difficult to focus.

They know that what is really said and what we actually hear during a negotiation is far more important than what we allow ourselves to think while others talk. In order to blank slate effectively, the little voice in our own heads must be silent.

you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

That way you are protected with adequate information in case something unexpected comes up.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'