Quotes About Awareness

Some breeds are noisier than others—a fact that should be taken into consideration when you have neighbors in close proximity.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be.

John Maxwell says a budget (for your money) is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Managing time is the same; you will either tell your day what to do or you will wonder where it went.

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

Children are sponges—they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them.

"Don't Kid Yourself" would be the greatest brand name for birth control pills.

Briefly, it is a set of assets such as name awareness, loyal customers, perceived quality, and associations (e.g. being "pure" and "it floats") that are linked to the brand (its name and symbol) and add (or subtract) value to the product or service being offered.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

Free-flowing thoughts can be our greatest asset when we are in a creative mode, but when an unruly mental process limits our awareness, the mind becomes an oppressor.

The secret is this: monkey mind feeds in darkness, it shrinks under the light of observation.

Every meditator carries an enormous amount of baggage in the form of mental static. This provides fuel for noisy thought-engines that seem to be constantly running.

Sam?dhi is the state of concentrated calm resulting from meditation practice."8 In another, we find "It implies not merely equilibrium, tranquillity, and one-pointedness, but a state of intense yet effortless concentration, of complete absorption of the mind itself, of heightened and expanded awareness.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

We do indeed encounter new parts of ourselves by stripping away the veils of our slumber; we become aware of our essential character and are opened to capabilities beyond limits self-imposed through ignorance,

Enlightenment does not end with an attainment; it is a continuous unfolding.

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.

Although we've lately come to associate gravity with heaviness, and so to think of it as having a strictly downward vector, nonetheless something rises up into us from the solid earth whenever we're in contact with it.

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us—we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.

We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things—of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil—seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what's worth knowing.

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.