Quotes About Awareness

Living by Silent Knowing This is probably the best-known verse of the Tao Te Ching. In fact, the opening two lines ("Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know") are so popular that they've almost become a cliché. Nevertheless

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

To be in harmony with the Tao is to be free of goals, immersed in all that you're doing without concern about the outcome—just noticing in each moment and allowing yourself to flow with the creative Source that's energizing everything and everyone in the universe.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The only way you deactivate this dormant force is by believing that you're separate from it.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

Keep track of situations that occur spontaneously or out of the realm of your control.

seek to acquaint yourself with the limitless creative energy that's a part of you

slow down your incessant demands for more

There's no such thing as difficulty when you live in the present moment, doing only what you can right now.

Consider the two ways of being presented in this verse of the Tao Te Ching: first to meld into, and therefore become at one with, your immediate surroundings; and to then simultaneously stay so relaxed that your stillness allows all things around you to settle, resulting in a deep clarity.

It's up to you to recognize that your belief that ego can control life is an illusion.

have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing.

Do the Tao Now At your next meal, practice portion control by asking yourself after several bites if you're still famished. If not, just stop and wait. If no hunger appears, call it complete. At this one meal, you'll have practiced the last sentence of the 9th verse of the Tao Te Ching: "Retire when the [eating] is done; this is the way of heaven.

when life looks difficult, stop and realize that you're only one thought removed from being at peace.

begin changing your view of judgment as a valuable or important activity by being aware of when you're doing it to yourself.

bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed

Improve your vision by looking beyond what your eyes see.

You have a self that can look down from a more exalted position upon that lower, ego-dominated self. So begin to know yourself as something far greater than the ever-changing, ever-dying aspects that have dominated your picture of who you are. Who am I? is then answered with, I am an infinite being who originated not from my parents, but from a Source that is itself birthless, deathless, and changeless.

Pay attention to the flow of your life.

really been teaching for thirty years or have you been teaching one year, thirty times?" And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.

Enjoy the flowers, clouds, sunsets, storms, stars, mountains, and all the people you encounter.