Quotes About Awareness

Shift to belly breathing as often as you can, repeating "Letting go of small mind" on the inbreath and "I am one with Big Mind" on the outbreath.

Awareness of the little ways that we tend to be dishonest with ourselves leads to great strides in applying honesty and integrity to all our interactions.

It takes no more time to be mindful than mindless, and mindfulness is the way that you will taste freedom. Commit to doing one activity mindfully every day for the next month, in addition to the other daily practices.

If judgmental thoughts about others occur during the day, take a minute to send lovingkindness blessings first to yourself, and then to them.

Seed Thought Meditation is a form of mental martial arts. If we resist thoughts they will overpower us. But if we just step lightly out of their way, letting them come and go like birds flying overhead, we can use their energy to further focus our minds.

As you watch television, read the newspaper or magazines, or encounter suffering in any form, send lovingkindness blessings. The world doesn't need any more anger or indignation, but it could certainly use more love.

As you go about your day, remember to notice something that you've never thought of being grateful for.

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Don Juan says that we fail to see the world as it is because our energy field gets locked in by our sense of self-importance, what some philosophies refer to as our ego.

We can recognize the ego as that part of ourself that lives in our historical past, our story, rather than in the present moment.

The twin flames of wisdom and trust continue to burn away any obscurations to our awareness of love's presence until we come to abide in the understanding that we are always cared for, always loved, always cheered on, regardless of the difficulties we may be experiencing.

This is true of the birth of democracy, too. Indeed, the novelty of democratic rule would not have been conceivable without the intense awareness of the common bond forged by shared genealogy as fostered by religion.

Our conscious minds are clever, but unfortunately, they just don't have the full awareness we need to make appropriate choices day by day.

We have to learn to hear on every level at once if we are really to become whole. The problem is that most of us are deaf in at least one ear. We have to learn to listen to Scripture. And we have to learn to listen to life around us.

Prayer in Benedictine spirituality is not an interruption of our busy lives nor is it a higher act. Prayer is the filter through which we learn, if we listen hard enough, to see our world aright and anew and without which we live life with souls that are deaf and dumb and blind.

I have come to understand that the voice of God is all around me. God is not a silent God. God is speaking to me all the time. In everything. Through everyone. I am only now beginning to listen, let alone to hear.

People whose lives are not lived on the mountain peaks of the world commonly forget that the shallows have a beauty of their own.

Humility is reality to the full.

Es que tenemos el prejuicio de que las formas son exclusivamente físicas. La música es una sucesión de formas sonoras que destacan sobre el fondo. Su fondo es el silencio. Y el fondo de las ideas es el campo de la consciencia.

The poet Mary Oliver may have written the best definition of what it means to be a prophet in contemporary spirituality. She writes, "Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

God is indeed everywhere in everything at all times—in the abstruse as well as the luminous, whether we ourselves can see the hand of God in this moment or not.

We must take our whole selves there—mind and heart—as well as our bodies. And we must be there five minutes before prayer starts.

Rogue waves are the dangerous ones; they are the ones that no one takes note of or prepares to manage. These are the movements we should have seen but did not. Or, worse, they are what we saw coming but refused to acknowledge in the hope that ignoring them would make them go away.

Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.