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Quotes About Awareness

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
~ Swami Muktananda
If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
~ S. N. Goenka
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.
~ John Taylor Gatto
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
~ Jane Pauley
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
~ Ann Patchett
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
~ Bodhidharma
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
~ Paul Saffo
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.
~ Antony Gormley
Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.
~ Cheryl Richardson
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
~ T. K. V. Desikachar
There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
~ Meher Baba
Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.
~ Unknown
The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.
~ Deepak Chopra
It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.
~ John Daido Loori
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
~ Russell Simmons
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
~ Jessica Savitch
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
~ Jack Kornfield
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
~ Marianne Williamson
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
~ Aldous Huxley
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
~ Barry McCaffrey