Quotes About Awareness

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Anger is a call for awareness.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.

I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Il ne nous suffit pas de comprendre nos obligations à l'égard des autres et de la terre; nous devons aussi les ressentir.

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.

He could see. And he walked along, feeling the joy of a man who sees, a joy that a man tends to forget in sufficient light.

In relation to the natural world, the pleasure of Americans can be destructive in the same way that their work has already proved to be. It is not, certainly, a conscious destructiveness. But in that very unconsciousness it becomes an aspect of one of our worst national failings: our refusal to admit the need to be conscious. Or to put it more meaningfully: our refusal to admit that unconsciousness, in our time, is almost inevitably destructive.

I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V

I have thrown away my lantern, and I can see the dark.

To remember, to hear and remember, is to stop and walk on again to a livelier, surer measure. It is dangerous to remember the past only for its own sake, dangerous to deliver a message you did not get.

We younger ones began to see that we knew things that never had not been known.

It seemed to us that we'd never thought of him before as a man who would die. He never had thought of himself in that way. Until that year, although he'd cursed his weakness and his age, he'd either ignored the idea of his death or had refused to believe in it. He'd only thought of himself as living.