Quotes About Awareness

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.

I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.

People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

There's some bells you can't unring.

It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.

No existe nada como "yo", "mí" o "lo mío" a lo que aferrarse.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

The deeper your concentration, the deeper the potential for mindfulness.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.

The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded.

In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.

rather than rushing headlong into things with a mind that is sorely out of touch with large parts of ourself, a mind driven by narrow ambition and ideas of personal gain. The story says we can only fare well if we proceed with an awareness of the way things are, including a willingness to admit not knowing where we are going.

Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it's doing for you these days, or what it's not, or you want to convince someone else how wonderful it would be for them, just look at it as more thinking and go meditate some more.

We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, I Am That

It is the inner experience which counts. And you have to be there for it. All else is mere thinking.

awareness is at least as important and useful to us as thinking. In fact, it is demonstrably more powerful in that any thought, no matter how profound, can be held in awareness.

cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and

attention and the awareness that arises from it are the doorway to true education and learning — life-long gifts that keep deepening with use.