Quotes About Awareness

new astronomy also had to adjust to the idea that what their senses told them everyday was untrue – that the world did not revolve around them alone.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

The eyes that saw too much because they did not close enough.

Zuzuki-roshi] I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.

As you pursue long-term growth, don't limit yourself to the specific initiatives discussed here. Stay alert for new growth areas.

For the first time, I saw my behavior from someone else's point of view.

But your feelings are not always a reliable guide to reality and

Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.

How do you react with your body, breath, and eyes? Notice if you react to a person or situation that hurts you by withdrawing, hiding, or closing in on yourself. Notice if there are times when you find it difficult to look into someone's eyes, or times your chest and solar plexus become tense and contracted. These are signs of an unskillful reaction to hurt.

Only when the front of your body is relaxed and opened, your breath full and deep, and your gaze unguarded and directly connected with another person's eyes, can your fullest intelligence manifest spontaneously in the situation.

How can you be more responsible? Not necessarily by doing more work. You become more responsible by knowing your deepest purpose, and then arranging your finances and spiritual life from that knowingness.

If you are willing to feel exactly what is and open as you are, then your life unfolds as truth.

When you walk, how can you let go of your old habits of tension and move as an expression of the love you feel you are at depth? At your job, how can you work as the love you truly are? What changes do you need to make in your daily life-rituals so that love can radiate through your every breath, action, and relationship?

What a man's value is no longer measured by what he does, by his finances or social standing, how does he determine his worth? In our world, a man's presence--his depth of awareness--is his most valuable asset.

When a man's value is no longer measured by what he does, by his finances or social standing, how does he determine his worth? In our world, a man's presence--his depth of awareness--is his most valuable asset.

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere.

Either you are living as love or you are lost in the drama of your own story to one degree or another.

if you can bring her depth when she is superficial

You have to know exactly what you're doing before you decide to use guns.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise? Of course it is, she replied calmly. How did you reach that conclusion? Beldin demanded. Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear. But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty? Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

Watch out for snakes,' Durnik called after him.