Quotes About Awareness

No matter where There is, when you arrive it becomes Here.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.

I've had lots of happy moments. I've been lucky. But I always think the happiest moment hasn't happened yet. I'm talking about the queen of happy moments. The biggie. The unfathomable. The epitome of happiness. The only thing is, I worry that when it comes along I won't recognize it. It'll be flashing away there at the edge of my vision and I'll be looking so hard that I'll just let it float right by.

It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die.

We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle

Ms. Rogers sighed softly. Just keep a weather eye, she said. Grant looked out the window. But it's a bright sunny day. Papa laughed. She means keep our eyes open for anything or anyone unusual or suspicious, he explained.

Virginia Woolf believed that 'Moments of Being' were all that counted in life.

They had always seemed to Brenda antiseptically unaware that such a thing as romance existed.

Each of us has a dark side, along with our own grace and light. The extent to which we can acknowledge the former while maximizing the latter may determine how we choose to fulfill the terms of our Contract. When the shadow side takes over even one person, the consequences are tragically felt by many.

Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness

As long as you remain present, everything you need is

By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships.

We need never feel either that we have too far to travel or that we have already arrived and can stop practicing the everyday virtues of compassion and mindfulness.

The Mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark." THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense

self-knowledge promotes choice and action, and many people feel unready for either.

The most effective way to break the controlling force of a myth is to recognize that you personally believe it, and that while you may share this belief with others, it is a belief and not necessarily a fact.

Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

After all, who are you that the world should make sense to you?

Spiritual transformation results when you move from seeing things strictly in physical, material terms to seeing that there are reasons why things happen as they do—that there is a greater plan behind them.

remind yourself continually of the higher truth that you cannot possibly see all the facts or details of any situation, nor visualize the long-term consequences of your actions.

Again and again I have witnessed that healing is a matter of becoming conscious—not of the illness but of a life-force that the person has never before embraced.