Quotes About Awareness

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.