Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes, in life, we can't get our bearings until we trip over the truth.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals

Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

There's an important middle piece to the puzzle: Listening means actively seeking to understand another person. That's why we say it's a contact sport. Listening without contact, listening without a dramatic connection, is like looking without seeing.

I found the only time I had to shut down—to become mindful of nothing more than the present moment—was whenever I was peeing.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two

Some things can't be spoken. The body alone knows them. It holds them patiently, in its silent, intelligent cells, until you are ready to see.

Masalah hanya menjadi masalah kalau kau percaya itu masalah. Dan sering orang melihatmu seperti kau melihat dirimu sendiri. -Krishna

How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?

Be still and be aware. Look at each other for a few minutes. You may experience or feel the divine presence within the person in front of you. You may even experience or feel divine love and divine bliss. Silently say, "I AM THAT I AM. I salute the I AM within you. I salute the divine presence within you. Atma namaste!

Thoughts and emotions are living beings so when you look at them and you do not react, you do not feed them. In this way they gradually lose their energy and just disintegrate.

A spiritual disciple, being internally good and kind, may project these qualities to others who are not mature and not kind. This may lead to gullibility and being easily fooled by others. A disciple must be on guard against this tendency.

Intuitive intelligence is knowing though direct inner perceptions or direct knowing. It doesn't require study. The disciple just simply knows. There are usually no inner images or visions. Intuitive intelligence utilizes the crown chakra.

When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you practice awareness, everything becomes majestic and good. You begin to see that you have been leading a different kind of life in the past. You had the essence of mindfulness already, but you hadn't discovered it.