Quotes About Awareness

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.