Quotes About Awareness

It is difficult to escape the focus of our own attention–difficult to consider what it is we may not be considering–and this is one of the reasons why we so often mispredict our emotional responses to future events.

Poetry, as Allen Ginsberg reminded his friends, is news that stays news.

One learns a lot if others assume you are deaf to their tongue.

En fait, nous créons nos propres prisons. Celles-ci sont toujours à l´exacte dimension du regard que nous posons sur les situations auxquelles nous sommes confrontés.

On commence par savoir, ensuite on comprend, enfin seulement vient la Connaissance.

Today I will just observe and listen." • "Today I will trust that everything will work out well." • "Today I will accept things as they are." • "Today I will be aware of the beauty all around me." I recommend affirmations

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

There is neither transcendence nor purification.

The body immediately confers perfection, that is, certainty with regard to the true nature of things . . . thanks to the contact with the power of the Self," says Abhinavagupta.

the yogi sees the world as desire. Everything—a leaf falling from a tree, the sky, the snow, the water he drinks, his food—desires him.

when our desire occupies all of space the absence of one object goes totally unnoticed, because the flow of our awareness remains free to come into contact with thousands of others.

A peaceful mind realizes that it has the ability to grasp everything instantaneously. It no longer has to "stockpile" the materials of reality in order to deal with them later. It sees things directly, without projection and without judgment, in all their evidence and obviousness, in their naked reality.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

The MI folks could usually tell you the make, model, year, paint color, and license plate of the semitrailer truck that just ran over you.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind, which clings to the human ego as the proverbial 'monkey' of drug addiction clings to addicts.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

Que des livres puissent à ce point bouleverser notre conscience et laisser le monde aller au pire, voilà de quoi rester muet.

Far sentire qui quel che succede là era la sua unica passione: la principessa Ubiquità in persona. (Liesl Fraenkel)

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul.

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul. Cette lecture lui est une compagnie qui ne prend la place d'aucune autre, mais qu'aucune autre compagnie ne saurait remplacer.