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Quotes About Awareness

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
~ Henepola Gunaratana
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
~ Lizette Woodworth Reese
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
~ Carl Jung
From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
The only way to experience an experience is to experience it
~ Bill Moggridge
the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself
~ Gautama Buddha
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
~ Tom Barrett
Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.
~ Unknown
You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.
~ Matthew Kahn
All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
~ Barry Long
There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.
~ Anne Truitt
How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?
~ Alexandra Adornetto
Reality is the completion of experience.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Experience first, then intellectualize.
~ Carl Orff
Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience
~ David Cook
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
~ Pema Chodron
Any experience of reality is indescribable!
~ R. D. Laing
You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
~ Charlie Peacock
Experience by itself teaches nothing.
~ W. Edwards Deming