Quotes About Awareness

All vampires use self-hypnosis to avoid seeing themselves as they really are, but Histrionics are virtuosos of self-deception. Like stage magicians, they divert their own awareness away from the strings and wires that hold their personalities together. They simply do not see anything in themselves that they consider inappropriate or unlovable. Their image of themselves is like a series of attractive still photos, scenes from a movie with no overall plot to hold them together.

Emotional Vampires are not intrinsically evil, but their immaturity allows them to operate without thinking about whether their actions are good or bad. Vampires see other people as potential sources for whatever they happen to need at the moment, not as separate human beings with needs and feelings of their own. Rather than evil itself, vampires' perceptual distortion is a doorway through which evil may easily enter.

en situaciones emocionales, antes de decir cualquier cosa, pide un momento para pensar.

With Ham-it-up vampires, the do and say distinction begins with listening to the actual content of their words. These vampires seldom lie, but they seldom tell the whole truth, except when it slips out between the lines. Pay attention to detail. Ask questions to determine the who, what, when, where, and why of situations before assuming you know what's going on.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

awareness is itself a solvent. Simply allowing a thought, idea, anxiety or compulsion to rest within the field of awareness will dissolve that thought, idea and so on.

The doubt sensation, also called the yearning sensation, the longing sensation, allows the mind to become more and more aroused without its resting on anything, to the point where pure awareness without content, reflection or desire can spring forth in a burst of light, an explosion of pure being.

The only way to know yourself is to be, which means to forget all that you think you are. In the Bible, God says, "Be still and know that I am God." This is what I mean by simply 'be.' This statement could easily, without loss, be reduced to, "Be still and know," or just "Be still," or, as we have just said, "Be." Being is knowing, knowing is stillness, and this still knowing, which is being without limit, some people call God.

When I am silent it seems that nothing is happening, but everything is happening. Nothing ever stops happening. Everything is happening. To see into this is a way of melting down this carapace, this shell, of what we call existence.

This moment of non-reflection unveils the awakening before the awakening, the moment when bodhichitta arises. An awakening up-stream of reflection, upstream of all conflict in a moment of knowing without content, it is without any awareness of knowing. One cannot even speak of 'a moment of knowing.' Knowing shines.

Words have consequences.

Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.

A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.

Not one of these people—not even the policeman himself—had any evidence that the collie was mad. There are not two really rabid dogs seen at large in New York or in any other city in the course of a year. Yet, at the back of the human throat ever lurks that fool cry of "Mad dog!"—ever ready to leap forth into shouted words at the faintest provocation

LOIS MADDEN was happy, very, very happy—until some one told her she was not. Happiness is a mystic bud that a single breath can wake into riotous bloom or wither to a shrivel. And it has no existence except in its possessor's heart. That is why a breath, laden with a few silly cynicisms from a wise fool, was able to do all sorts of things to Lois Madden's gladness.

Lo desconocido es un océano, cuya brújula es la consciencia. Pensamiento, meditación, oración, son los grandes señalamientos misteriosos de su aguja.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life."

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.