Quotes About Awareness

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

It's been suggested that successful communication consists of 7 percent content, 38 percent tone of voice, and 55 percent nonverbal communication. We're usually aware of the content of what we're saying, but not nearly as aware of our tone of voice.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the "immovable mind.

Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

Considering his tuberculosis it isn't hard to understand why Nakamura Sensei was motivated to search for firsthand knowledge, but we may not feel the same burning motivation. We, after all, aren't about to die. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is delusional. We are going to die. We

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

Act on awareness, not on thought

As awareness unfolds, higher levels of consciousness emerge. As our consciousness rises, so does the energetic field around us. This field influences the people attracted to us, how people respond to us, what events are attracted to us, and what opportunities present themselves. People and events of similar energetic fields resonate with each other. Attraction also occurs when energies are complementary. Conscious energy creates our physical reality and our experience.

Before we can create change, we have to decide something needs to change. Before we can decide something needs to change, we have to accept it as it is. Before we can accept it as it is, we have to be aware of its existence. Awareness is the beginning of all creation.

Breath is the first thing we do coming into this life, breath is the last thing we do leaving this life, and breath regulates everything in between.

Clear sight results from a still mind

Consciousness can be a state of mind, but it is not a condition of mind

Consciousness is always there rather we are aware of it or not

Consciousness is not a state of matter, but a matter of awareness

Enlightenment is removing all distractions