Quotes About Awareness

A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN MY ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE art of relaxed concentration came when, while teaching, I again began to notice what was taking place before my eyes.

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Sin pensar o analizar, Jack aumentó su conciencia del golpe que ejecutaba. Cuando la mente se halla libre de todo juicio y pensamiento, está en silencio y actúa como un espejo. Entonces, y solo entonces, podemos ver las cosas tal como son.

Pogo was right when he proclaimed, "I have met the enemy, and it is us.

The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in

Focus means not dwelling on the past, either on mistakes or glories; it means not being so caught up in the future, either its fears or its dreams, that my full attention is taken from the present.

The awareness instruction, on the other hand, asks only one thing of the conscious mind: Pay attention to what is happening. There is no doubt because there is no right way or wrong way, and there is no fear of failure because there is no externally implied standard for success. Yet the body learns because it is now free to focus on what feels good and to see for itself what works.

Focus means keeping the mind now and here.

The focused mind only picks up on those aspects of a situation that are needed to accomplish the task at hand.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus.

There are some very stupid men in the capitals of the Western World--the more stupid because they think they are so wise. It would seem to me that almost anybody would know by now that colored peoples do not like to be ruled by outside forces, Jim Crowed, segregated, told what to do by aliens, and in general kicked around.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry. Those who ought to know, tell me that you never really appreciate Moscow until you get back again to the land of the bread lines, unemployment, Jim Crow cars and crooked politicians, brutal bankers and overbearing police, three per cent beer and the Scottsboro case.

In America Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is, We know.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

A foolish man is always doing,Yet much remains to be done.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

We look at it [Tao] and do not see it;Its name is The Invisible.We listen to it and do not hear it;Its name is The Inaudible.We touch it and do not find it;Its name is The Subtle [formless].

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.