Quotes About Awareness

Chanting is the sadhana of consciousness offered to the timeless Self, and the mantra serves as a reminder of this nondual truth.

My birth was just an incident but my death will not go unnoticed

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

People have died from hiccups, you know.

mortal man. He saw a being

The lives we live, he thinks, are filled with holes.

She doesn't like looking straight at things. She's a peripheral person.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human existence.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

All these feelings are unnecessary suffering caused by an imbalance between our instinctual drive for happiness and our instinctual need for survival. It is also very important to remember that the end of suffering does not mean the end of pain or difficulties, just the end of creating unnecessary suffering in our lives.

Renunciation is a commitment to let go of the things that create suffering. It is founded on the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind.

It is not true to say that there is no self at all or that everything is empty or illusory, but it is true that everything is constantly changing and that there is no solid, permanent, unchanging self within the process that is life.

Wise and careful action, from a foundation of sober awareness, is the way of the revolutionary.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Education is political.

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.