Quotes About Awareness

What if we valued feeling as much as thinking, as synchronistic events invite us to do?" —Robert H. Hopcke, There are No Accidents

what is the nature of reality?

You have to watch them all the time,' she assured me darkly. 'Even if the spirit's willing, the flesh is weak!

Clint never could get into the split personality thing, acting and talking one way around family and friends, then turning into someone your own mama wouldn't recognize just to have a conversation with some white folks. He'd never seen the advantage to it. Once Clint had learned that all white people didn't smell like the Downy fabric softener he'd seen in those commercials, he lost the enchantment. He felt no urge to try to impress them.

A deterrent must be known to exist, and to work.

You can even invoke dreams, nourish them, and regulate their quantity. For example, to stimulate dreaming, before you go to sleep tell yourself: "I want to remember my dreams," or address the dream directly, "Dreaming Self, send me a dream," or use whatever phrase feels comfortable to you. If you invoke dreams for three nights in a row, generally you will recall a dream by the fourth night. I repeat my phrase three times just to make

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

When you stop to smell roses, be careful not to inhale bee.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

Sir, say no more.Within me 't is as ifThe green and climbing eyesight of a catCrawled near my mind's poor birds.

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

His face wears the blows delivered by life. Half his pain lies in what he omits from his story; the other half sits on his face with a tenebrous weight. I am struck by the thought that we live the life we have and then that of those we love, so that at all times we are aware of either existing suffering or imminent suffering. Even in these far away mountains, despair is still despair.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

We fail to see that recognizing, admitting, and clearly understanding the patterns we experience in our own lives can have a transformative effect on the way we function in the world and the way we relate to others.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

This unconditional wakefulness is described in the Sanskrit term bodhicitta

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any & all thought states.

REAL BUT NOT TRUE