Quotes About Awareness

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.