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Quotes About Awareness

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
~ Frederick Lenz
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.
~ Rajneesh
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
~ Brene Brown
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
~ Laozi
Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.
~ Tony Parsons
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.
~ Frederick Lenz
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
~ E. M. Forster
There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.
~ Kate Millett
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
~ Anna Quindlen
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
~ Frederick Lenz
Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.
~ Cathy Lamb
The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
~ Pema Chodron
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
~ Oliver Goldsmith
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
~ Paulo Coelho
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.
~ Nhat Hanh
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
~ Samuel Johnson
And feel that I am happier than I know.
~ John Milton