Quotes About Awareness

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

the environmental consequences of our actions today are so large, powerful, and long-lived that they cannot be fully understood from a mere century-scale point of view.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

I knew my sister was dead. I felt it in my body, as if my bones could tell me the truth.

To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.

You can take this process a step further even without a mirror. Whenever you sense yourself slipping into a relational syndrome at work, immediately ask to see, in your mind's eye, what you have the opportunity to shift, embrace, or change. Then intend this change for yourself.

Do the same when you sense twisted thoughts or worries. Isolate the belief, deciding which of the six fundamental misperceptions it reflects. Then mature that belief. What is a healthier and higher way to perceive yourself or this situation?

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Feeling the motion of an earthquake even when there isn't one is called jishin yoi, which means "earthquake drunk.

To walk the way of Wisdom is to become transparent to the Light that is your very being.

Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller "I" with its

Find the place where your feet know how to walk / And follow your own trail home." The way to your heart begins with your feet on the ground, quietly but intensely present.

And so meditation rests on the wager that if you can simply break the tyranny of your ordinary awareness, the rest will begin to unfold itself. At first when you begin a practice of meditation, it feels like a place you go to. You may think of it as "my inner sanctuary" or "my place apart with God." But as the practice becomes more and more established in you so that this inner sanctuary begins to flow out into your life, it becomes more and more a place you come from.

You are the breath of God. You are the way God is aware of God in the immediacy of your life. You are the way God feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, frees the wrongly imprisoned. You are the way God brings justice, mercy, and humility to life. But because you want to be more, you end up being less: the way God brings horror, hate, and holocaust to every corner of the globe.

The other reason why the mind has been regarded with a certain amount

The other reason why the mind has been regarded with a certain amount of suspicion is its tendency to pull us into a smaller, mentally constructed sense of ourselves: to confuse being with thinking.

is to break through the bonds that attach the individual to the world of his senses and separate him from his eternal nature.

Only from the level of spiritual awareness do you begin to see and trust that all is held in the divine Mercy. But once grounded in that certainty, you can begin to reach out to the world with the same wonderful, generous vulnerability that we see in Christ.

That person does indeed see from a perspective of singleness—and just as Jesus called for, there is now no separation between God and humans, or between humans and other humans, simply because separation isn't factored into the new operating system. It is no longer necessary for perception, so it simply falls away like scales from the eyes.

You have to drag them into the light.

Was that how every couple functioned after time? Seeing the contours of someone else's intelligence so much more easily than your own?