Quotes About Awareness

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.

Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Jesus' words, "Forgive them for they do not know what they do," also apply to yourself.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

All things that truly matter - beauty , love , creativity ,joy , inner-peace - arise from beyond the mind .

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.