Quotes About Awareness

The second way mindfulness disempowers schema thoughts has to do with the nature of attention itself.

Thoughts have no power except the power we give them.

mindfulness fills much of our attention with something other than the mental tape loops that activate our schemas.

Mindfulness helps to derail schema thoughts by focusing our awareness on the here and now, simply noting what we experience without getting caught up in our thoughts or our reactions to them.

Realizing that these thoughts are just projections of the mind helps counter the disturbing emotions they provoke.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

Thoughts have no solidity, but merely the appearance of solidity because of the power we give them.

Challenge those thoughts. Remind yourself that they distort the way things really are.

If you stay mindful as thoughts appear in your awareness, they reveal their empty nature and eventually dissolve. Let them vanish on their own, without adding to them in any way.

Emotions add the qualities of pleasantness or unpleasantness to what the mind perceives.

Mindfulness is a meditative awareness that cultivates the capacity to see things just as they are from moment to moment

A mental state can last for but a moment, until another state rises to the top of the mind's hierarchy, or it can become a habitual frame of mind.

get to a point where we've observed our mind long enough to become more aware of its repetitive cycles, playing the same tapes over and over, in endless variations.

Their rule of thumb for classifying a state of mind was simple but profound: it depended on whether the mind state led to inner peace or disturbed the mind.

With mindfulness, we can see their impersonal nature more clearly, not identifying with the thinker, letting thoughts dissolve like waves back into awareness.

Instead of being swept away and captured by a thought or feeling, mindfulness steadily observes those thoughts and feelings as they come and go.

Buddhist psychology acknowledges our disturbing emotions but sees them as covering our essential goodness like clouds covering the sun.

Feelings are held, but not held on to.

Recognizing, for instance, "Oh, I'm having those-feelings again," or "Here come my schema thoughts," gives us the freedom to wake from the schema trance.

Strong emotions are messages from the unconscious.

Mindfulness can help you recognize your fearful thoughts so that you can see that they're simply thoughts, not reality.

By mindfully monitoring your thoughts rather than letting them dictate how you behave, you will start to win emotional freedom from your fears.

mindfulness creates a "wise" attention, a space of clarity that emerges when we quiet the mind. It makes us more receptive to the whispers of our innate intuitive wisdom.

means to penetrate dense emotions. This meditative awareness, I've found, can bring us a remarkably subtle understanding of our emotional patterns and so help us find ways to unravel deep fixations and destructive habits.