Quotes About Awareness

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.