Quotes About Awareness

That simple. You lived or you died. And in between the two, if you kept your mind open and aware and listened and smelled and watched... In between you learned. from Northwind

live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

I need to bring my illusions to the truth instead of giving truth to my illusions.

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain

È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle. Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself.

I wanted to save them from themselves, from the idiotic consumer culture that was bleeding them softly. I

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.

Oil the saw, sharpen axes, Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest- there are hundreds- Learn by heart the drainages between Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.

Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge—the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

WE SHALL SEE WHO KNOWS HOW TO BE

The truly experienced person, the refined person, delights in the ordinary.

We all receive, every day, the gifts of the Deep World, from the air we breathe to the food we eat

David G. Benner has defined spiritual direction as a prayer process in which a person seeking help in cultivating a deeper personal relationship with God meets another for prayer and conversation that is focused on increasing awareness of God in the midst of life experiences and facilitating surrender to God's will (2002:94).

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. John Keats

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.

Knowing must therefore be accompanied by an equal capacity to forget knowing.

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.