Quotes About Awareness

If you stopped yourself every time you said, I have to and changed it to, I get to, it might change your entire experience.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

What you believe you experience.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.