Quotes About Awareness

The central question I ask myself during a therapy session is simply this one: Which part of you am I talking to?

It's the Whoosh, the visceral reaction that comes up from the feet like a wave washing over your body. I speak of it as our first consciousness, and I divide it into three reactions—fight, flight, or fix.

She calls it relational heroism—that moment when every muscle and nerve in your body is screaming to do the same old, but through raised consciousness, insight, discipline, and grace, you lift yourself off your accustomed track and deliberately place yourself on another track.

This everyday practice is relational mindfulness—stopping for a brief moment and centering ourselves. Observing, just as in all forms of mindfulness, the thoughts, feelings, impulses that arise—and choosing something different.

Men's willingness to downplay weakness and pain is so great that it has been named as a factor in their shorter life span. The ten years of difference in longevity between men and women turns out to have little to do with genes. Men wait longer to acknowledge that they are sick, take longer to get help, and once they get treatment do not comply with it as well as women do.

The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.

Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.

Starting immediately, thank God for every gift He gives, from those as small as a whiff of honeysuckle or jasmine in your backyard, to the realization that you just had a few moments without back pain, to really big things like the fact that [people you love] are in the next room safe and sound. "I'm

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.

Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.

The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine?

Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts?

One can only see clearly When one is going slowly Quick motion creates a life-blur.

Every day is a new opportunity to be grateful, and enjoy the world, and improve it — in our own little ways.

Guilt is always hungry, don't let it consume you.

Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

My younger passions are still listening, as I age.