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Quotes About Awareness

My mind is heaven My eyes are the sun and the moon My awareness shines like the morning star.
~ Ilchi Lee
Knowing that you have a soul bright and clear like the sun, perceiving and feeling that soul, you will realize that it is very precious and beautiful. When you consider yourself important and precious, you will begin to feel the same way toward other forms of life and toward the world.
~ Ilchi Lee
Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that Deep within me Beneath the shell Lies the sacred beauty Of my true self.
~ Ilchi Lee
Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.
~ Ilchi Lee
The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.
~ Ilchi Lee
Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.
~ Ilchi Lee
The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.
~ Ilchi Lee
When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.
~ Ilchi Lee
The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.
~ Ilchi Lee
Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, opening our awareness to emptyness as the ultimate reality and our essential nature.
~ Ilchi Lee
Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.
~ Ilchi Lee
The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26
~ Ilchi Lee
Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.
~ Ilchi Lee
Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.
~ Ilchi Lee
If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
~ Ilchi Lee
At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.
~ Ilchi Lee
Still, I believe that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who know they are this"—she held the daisy in her hand—"yet let themselves be treated as that
~ Unknown
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they're not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. They're players, but they think life is a practice game and they'll save themselves for later. So they sit on the bench, and the only championship they'll ever see goes on before them. The clock ticks away the quarters. At any moment they can join in.
~ Unknown
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
~ Colin Meloy
Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.
~ Colin Meloy
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
~ Colin Neenan
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
~ Colin Powell
Let me know about a problem as soon as you know about it.
~ Colin Powell
Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections.
~ Colin Powell