Quotes About Awareness

Nobody else can see us, because we have no objective existence whatsoever, and we cannot see anybody else because they have none.

How complete, whole, undivided seeing comes about is a mystery. Any formulation or method we invent will eventually get in our way. It's as if everything we learn must be instantly left behind.

Only the mirage-like separate fragment, the character in the movie, is concerned about being perfect and not being fooled again. The wholeness of being doesn't mind being fooled. Awareness has no self-image to protect, no self to defend against death. For life itself, there is no end to being fooled and no end to waking up. It is all happening to no one. It's not personal.

Angels are speaking to all of us ... some of us are only listening better. -ANONYMOUS

EVEN AS THEY resumed eating, memories and sexual awareness sparked between them, growing so palpable, it was like a physical force as strong and wild as the sea crashing against the cliff outside the windows.

Chances are everything's already been said, but since no one is paying attention you have to start all over again.

Los pequeños detalles muestran la extensión de lo que no sabes

Can you see Alaska from here?" "No." "But you know it's there, right? And you can't see your heart, but you feel it beat, right? That's what faith is about. We believe in what we can't see. Instead, we look for signs.

Osteoporosis isn't a problem that gets a lot of attention, but it is deadly in older women. The weakening of their bones doesn't only result in cosmetic changes. The fragility means that a fall can be life-threatening.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

It seems both outrageous and irresponsible that so few mental health clinicians connect the epidemics of mental distress in industrial societies with the devastating impact of our suicidal destruction of our own habitat and ecocidal elimination of whole species. — Linda Buzzel and Craig Chalquist

Cultural shifts happen on a different level; they come into view only when we step back enough to see a bigger picture changing over time. A newspaper photograph viewed through a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our lives and choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of change.

The great open secret of gratitude is that it is not dependent on external circumstance. It's like a setting or channel that we can switch to at any moment, no matter what's going on around us. It helps us connect to our basic right to be here, like the breath does.

Here is a version that I have adapted for use in the West. Close

Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul, you needn't be wary of its good looks. Until you learn better.

There is no need to say anything when you pray," the dean had heard Bishop Robert say at a recent confirmation in the city. "Just take time to look at God. And let Him look at you. That's all.

Um, Sophie? I have a face, you know," he added, and my eyes jerked up from his stomach.

My body recognized its master even if I didn't.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I'm learning so much from her.

Era de izquierdas, pero ahora no lo soy tanto porque tengo ojos y oídos

Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, - There is only one To-day.

I can't change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.