Quotes About Awareness

You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. But the present now is different from the present then.

Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.

anytime you truly listen to your hunger and fullness, you lose weight.

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run--if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

The process is the goal.

Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with an ongoing shower of immediate sensate experiences.

I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

It's not about food. It's never about food. And it's not even about feelings. It's about what's below them. What's in between them. What's beyond them.

Take yourself in. Ask the questions no one ever asked you. Keep going until you know the answer and you know who's asking. Until you realize- it's not far away- that the essence of you, like the sky, was always here. You just happened to get distracted by the local weather for a few decades.

When we're convinced we have to earn joy, we don't notice the ten thousand places in which it is already waiting, asking, waving for our attention.

But staying with the emptiness—entering it, welcoming it, using it to get to know ourselves better, being able to distinguish the stories we tell ourselves about it from the actual feeling itself—that's radical.

You miss the life that happens in the middle zone—between now and what you think your life should be like. And when you miss those moments because you'd rather be doing something else, you are missing your own life. Those moments are gone. You will never get them back.

To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act—and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat. You will quickly discover if you

But staying with the emptiness -entering it, welcoming it, using it to get to know ourselves better, being able to distinguish the stories we tell ourselves about it from the actual feeling itself - that´s radical

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion. You become unhinged, dependent on whether things are going well that day or not.

If you're eating past fullness, stop. And if you don't stop, fine—but ask yourself what's going on. Notice what you feel, what arises inside you.

Wake up to the riot of life around you every second. The singer Pearl Bailey said, "People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.

What we are looking for is who is looking

let me remember to pay attention to the ordinary, not just to the extraordinary.

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.

Dorothea Lange said that 'the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Nice people were not supposed to be able to recognize certain things, because they were supposed to be so untainted that they couldn't even think about them.

For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye.