Quotes About Awareness

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient and yet exceedingly shy. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods, shouting for the creature to come out. But if we are willing to walk quietly into the woods and sit silently for an hour or two at the base of a tree, the creature we are waiting for may well emerge, and out of the corner of an eye we will catch a glimpse of the precious wildness we seek.

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.

somehow when you live with somebody, when you see them every day, you don't notice that they've changed. People who hardly know them at all see the change in them before you do.

Perhaps pain, even other people's pain, becomes a smell you carry round with you? A

It's the hardest thing in the world to continue to be aware of someone else's pain.

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

She was one of those Southerners who were aware from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

As I applauded, I knew that it would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Sweet little Jesus, I thought, as I weaved between the desks, these kids don't know crap.

Secrets I am all secrets now. I know when you walk into a room. I don't need to see or hear you behind me, but I know you're there and wish you'd touch my shoulder when you walk by. How can you do that, without a sound, send electricity, a current through a room full of people? When did this crazy secret life start? People see me but don't see I've changed. The me people see isn't the tangled me inside, trying not to think about you, your laugh splashing like a waterfall on a hot summer day.

One of the greatest dangers we face in our attempt to remain humble is that the very moment we notice we are humble, we become proud of our humility- and in that instant, our humility evaporates

Creativity is not so much an ability as a state of awareness.

Distractions arise from habitual thought patterns when practice is intermittent.

It is the power to focus the consciousness on a given spot, and hold it there Attention is the first and indispensable step in all knowledge.

Ist?rab?n sebepleri her ÅŸeyi olduÄŸu gibi görmemek, 'Ben' hissi, ba??ml?l?k, hoÅŸlanmama ve yaÅŸama tutunmad?r.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.