Quotes About Awareness

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

Action is movement with intelligence.

The mind (manas) and the breath (prana) are intimately connected and the activity or the cessation of activity of one affects the other.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

From head to heels, you must find your center, and from this center you must extend and expand longitudinally and latitudinally. If extension is from the intelligence of the brain, expansion is from the intelligence of the heart. While doing asana, both the intellectual intelligence and the emotional intelligence have to meet and work together. Extension is attention, and expansion is awareness, I often say.

When most people stretch, they simply stretch to the point that they are trying to reach, but they forget to extend and expand from where they are. When you extend and expand, you are not only stretching to, you are also stretching from.

The mind does not balance when you force.

Inhalation is tension, exhalation is freedom.

Notice your eyes as well, as you hold the stretch. Tenseness of the eyes also affects the brain. If the eyes are still and silence the brain is still and passive.

When we direct our eyes looking forward from the corner of the temple in its normal field of vision, the frontal brain is working with analysis (vitarka). But when we spread our ocular awareness from the back corner of the temple, near the ear, the back brain is brought into play and works with synthesis (vicara). He front brain can dismantle because of its powerful penetration. The back brain is holistic and reassembles.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

When an asana is done correctly, the body movements are smooth, and there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

Slouching acts like a narcotic to the body. When our parents tell us not to slouch, it is because they instinctively understand that collapsing our chest caves in the very Self. It is because you mind shrinks that your soul shrinks. It is the spine's job to keep the mind alert. It is the spine's job to keep the mind alert. To do this, the spine has to keep the brain in position.

begins the Yoga S?tras with atha, meaning 'now', and ends with iti, 'that is all'. Besides this search for the soul, there is nothing.

When performing asanas, no part of the body should be idle, no part should be neglected.

Always watch your base: Be attentive to the portion nearest the ground. Correct first form the root.

We all have presence of mind when everything goes well, but we need to have presence of mind when something goes wrong. If we face suffering and accept it as a necessary means, all anxiousness disappears.

Though the mass of our body is heavy, we are meant to tread lightly on this earth.

The moment you say, "I have got it," you have lost everything you had.

Prana is special because it carries awareness. it is the vehicle of consciousness.