Quotes About Awareness

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

God is at work in all the places we already inhabit. He is bigger than the arena of our own immediate church programs and ideas about evangelism. He is a prodigal God recklessly working in people and situations of all types. If we truly believe God is at work in the world, we must take the time to pay attention, listen, and discern what God is doing in the lives of those around us.

Would you be able to recognize 'better' when you're in the mindset that life in its present form is somehow not good enough?

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.

This should be of no surprise when we realize that a common denominator of all traumas is an alienation and disconnection from the body and a reduced capacity to be present in the here and now.

Tennessee Williams: 'Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

We can now see that the alternative to "preoccupation" and racing around in a flurry of busyness is learning how to live more deeply.

J'ai consulté mon téléphone: je n'avais aucun message. C'est à cela que servent les téléphones portables, à se rendre compte que personne ne pense à vous. Avant, on pouvait toujours rêver que quelqu'un cherchait à vous joindre, à vous parler, à vous aimer. Nous vivons maintenant avec cet objet qui matérialise notre solitude.

as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now.

Qué relación guardas con el tiempo cuando lo tienes contado?

Pourquoi ai-je oublié à quel point c'est doux d'être ici? C'était comme si tous ses bonheurs récents avaient aussitôt été condamnés à l'amnésie.

Hay quien dice que un flechazo consiste en reconocer un sentimiento que ya llevábamos dentro

Había un reloj que entorpecía el silencio recordando su presencia a cada instante.

El sufrimiento condena a la lucidez.

Dans son lit, il sut qu'il ne serait pas capable de s'endormir : comment aller vers le rêve quand on vient de le quitter ?

Hay que desconfiar de los tipos que te meten la nariz en la boca.

Through the experience of meditation itself, the meditator becomes conscious that the practice of meditation is an end in itself rather than a means towards an end.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness—awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

Hinduism is not about joining a church but about developing respect for all beings, not only humans but plants and animals as well. It is not about a particular holy book but about understanding our own minds and hearts. It is not about a savior but about discovering the Divine presence within us.

El propósito de la encarnación física es el desarrollo de una conciencia superior.