Quotes About Awareness

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

THE SECOND MARK of existence is egolessness, sometimes called no-self. These words can be misleading. They don't mean that we disappear—or that we erase our personality. Egolessness means that the fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem. Self-importance is like a prison for

More simply, regard everything as a dream. Life is a dream. Death is also a dream, for that matter; waking is a dream and sleeping is a dream. Another way to put this is, "Every situation is a passing memory.

We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the doorknob or the telephone rings or feelings of all kinds arise. The

But the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating from fear is what we do naturally. We habitually spin off and freak out when there's even the merest hint of fear. We feel it coming and we check out.

examine is an interesting word. It's not a matter of looking and seeing—"Now I've got it!"—but a process of examination and contemplation that leads into being able to relax with insecurity or edginess or restlessness. Much joy comes from that.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

we cannot be in the present and run our story lines at the same time!

That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

When we become aware that we are thinking, we say to ourselves, "thinking," with an unbiased attitude and with tremendous gentleness. Then we return our focus to the breath. We regard the thoughts as bubbles and the labeling like touching them with a feather. There's just this light touch—"thinking"—and they dissolve back into the space.

Be fully present. Feel your heart. And engage the next moment without an agenda.