Quotes About Awareness

This too is illusionlike, it is dreamlike.

The Dalai Lama once said that he envisions a time when, just as today we accept good diet and exercise as key to physical health, the world will come to recognize the importance of mental care and training for mental health and human flourishing. That time may not be so far away.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Have you ever been in a Walmart?" asked Eva. "Physically, yes. Spiritually, no.

And here's what's really good," continued Belinda. "The publishing industry has a hard time processing Black characters unless we're suffering.

I thought you were a problem that needed solving. But you don't need solving. You need understanding.

Listen, caring about things don't maek you soft. IT makes you alive.

Listen. Caring about things doesn't make you soft. It makes you alive.

When someone went too long without touch, they became hypersensitive to the slightest graze. There was truth to it. Last weekend, Eva had almost had an orgasm when her hairstylist shampooed her. And her hairstylist was a grandmother of six.

Listen, caring about things don't make you soft. It makes you alive.

Audre plopped down on Cece's lap. "Try chocolate meditation. You stick a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth and sit quietly, letting it melt. No chewing. It's about mindfulness.

Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. Teenage girls couldn't wait to be ruined.

After reading it, I knew I had a serious problem. I don't drink, so that wasn't it. But everything else that characterized addiction—"stinkin' thinking"; the kind of thinking that is loaded down with circular rationalizations, distortions, and denial of reality that made you feel either you're crazy or everyone else is; repeating the same dysfunctional relationship patterns over and over and over again—I had it all.

This ability makes us more available to all of life. It builds self-confidence and inner strength.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

The big question is why do we need the news? People who don't know who's in goverment still want the news. Is it because listening to the news allows us to have opinions? Is it because it gives us something to talk about, the human weather? Most readers who put down a paper certainly feel qualified to rule the world.

I couldn't feel anything," I finally told him. "I couldn't feel the truth. Does that make sense? Do you know what the truth feels like?" "I know what it sounds like.

It drives me crazy when people know me well enough to remind me what I believe.

Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: "Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.

That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

Focus comes as an effortless connection to your being through pure fascination for this moment.

Silence is not something you do. Silence is something that comes to you and that Silence is a space of wonder.