Quotes About Awareness

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

We must realise that cognitive hygiene is as important subject as oral hygiene for healthy and happy existence.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change