Quotes About Awareness

There is no need to search . . . achievement leads nowhere . . . makes no difference at all. Just be happy now. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you think. You are already free.

I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live-- that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.

You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.

Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?

Socrates, how do I stop my thoughts, my mind - other than by developing a sense of humor? -First you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. For example, you have a cold now; Its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.

First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Finally, I realized the process of real meditation—to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.

only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed

If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.

If we can stop judging our mistakes so harshly, we can also stop ourselves from reactively engaging in the negative behaviors.

sensitivity

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses — it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy!

Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice." "It

The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, experienced this realization early in life: "Since boyhood, by repeating my own name silently, an intense awareness of individuality came, then seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state, but clear and sure, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility.

There is no victory over death; there is only the realization of Who we all really are.

We're all fools together," he replied. "It's just that a few people know it; others don't. You seem to be one of the latter types. Hand me that small wrench, will you?

Recognize that feelings fade unless restimulated, and use this to your advantage. Avoid restimulating undesired feelings.

you see, Dan, when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race ; the thoughts that assail you are actually created by you

Part One, "Naming the Problem," will help you see the full extent of parental control by describing in detail eight styles of controlling parents. You'll be able to determine which of these types—or combination of types—fits one or both of your parents. When you know your parents' styles, you can better recognize the continuing effects of their early control on you.