Quotes About Awareness

To cultivate mindfulness truly, we need to become fully integrated with our body once more

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not "you" or "reality." They are your internal running commentary on yourself and the world

Meditation is not about accepting the unacceptable. It is about seeing the world with greater clarity so that you can take wiser and more considered action to change those things that need to be changed.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence

Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognize memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you.

You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

You come to realize that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts.

You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient.

The mind seems to have a mind of its own.

There is a hole in your mind.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.

had simply wanted them to be ignorant, so they wouldn't be aware of what a fiend he really was.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.