Quotes About Awareness

There are two kinds of people that wear bike helmets: kids and retards.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

Many of you are gripped by the loony idea that your intentions are different from the results you create. It simplifies life enormously the moment you accept that the results you create are your unconscious intentions made visibly manifest.

Wherever I go, may I learn and love as much as I can in every moment. Wherever I am, may I be open to inspiration and truth.

How am I getting in my own way?

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.

For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA

Usually when I feel like there's no time, it really means I haven't made time for myself.

listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.

the Upper Limit Problem cannot be solved in the usual way we solve problems: by gathering information or replacing one set of information with another. The Upper Limit Problem must be dis-solved, not solved. You dissolve it by shining a laserlike beam of awareness on its underpinnings—the false foundations that hold the Upper Limit Problem in place. When you shine the light of awareness on the underpinnings, they disappear.

Your worry-thoughts, particularly if you find yourself recycling the same ones over and over, are a flag waving at you from your Zone of Genius. Something is trying to get your attention.

Restricting the breath is a quick way of stopping an unpleasant, unwelcome feeling. The trouble is that it also stops your life energy in general.

notice myself worrying about something. I let go of the worry-thoughts, shifting my focus away from them. I wonder: what positive new thing is trying to come into being?

Would you be willing to consider that your conflict is not about what you think it's about?

The unpleasant qualities of emotions come from not letting them through, from holding on to them by not participating with them. By directly participating with feelings, largely through breathing with them, you can rid yourself of much unnecessary negativity.

What important feelings am I not letting into my awareness? Where in my life am I not telling the full truth? Where in my life have I not kept my promises? In my relationship with _____________________, what do I need to say or do to feel complete and whole?

Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: "We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things.