Quotes About Awareness

He knows he only has the choice of going crazy or going inside and finding his own mind, which is what Buddhism is all about. Buddhism maintains that one's reality is part of one's own mindset, and that through discovering your own mind, even in the direst situations you can make your world a pure realm.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.

I love the cancer spoon!

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I'd certainly been guilty of it.

Just as we can get caught in outmoded habit-patterns passed down through generations, we can also get trapped by our habitual thinking just as much as—and just as erroneously as—people who maintained until recently that the earth was visibly and verifiably flat. We also get stuck in unconscious and invisible boxes that limit our ability to think in new ways.

four rules for getting off the diet-go-round: Eat when you're hungry. Eat exactly what your body wants. Eat each bite consciously. Stop when your body has had enough.1 Very simple. All you have to do is be conscious

Passion, pain, what's at hand—these are doorways to finding a purpose beyond material acquisition.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

This is what breath meditation is about: watching your breath, straying off, realizing it, and gently returning. Over and over again. Like I said, meditation is a practice.

Accept this reality: It is your mind's job to think—24/7. And it's not going to stop just because you sit down for 8 minutes and tell it to "Shut up, already!" But the good news is this: When you stop trying to stop your thoughts, you begin to surpass them. This can lead you to the peace you thought you could only achieve when you stopped thinking!

Your experience of life is determined by where you focus your attention. If you focus on content, i.e., the thoughts, images, and feelings arising right now, your attention is lost in a world of judging things as good, bad, or neutral—a real roller-coaster ride.

Democratic citizenship requires knowledge of war—and now, in the age of weapons of mass annihilation, more than ever.

Brasley still drank too much and liked his women, but at least he paced himself now, walking the path to self-destruction instead of sprinting down it at full speed.

Plans are what people make when Fate is sneaking up behind them,

Don't you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don't know. Really, I'm not sure how to explain, but can't you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don't … well, I'm not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can't believe it. I won't. We must rise to the occasion.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Conscience is God present in man.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point of education, of meditation and prayer. The more one lifts oneself up, the more of the pattern he is able to make out, though only an enlightened few have a perspective lofty enough to see the outline whole.

Nous sommes à la veille d'un nouveau cycle d'ouragans et c'est ce qui obscurcit les consciences. La boussole s'affole à l'approche des orages magnétiques...