Quotes About Awareness

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.

Developing perceptual fluency will increase your ability to access your total mind. No small thing. You will also find that habitual defensiveness and manipulation of others is gradually replaced by a flexible ability to establish rapport with a wide variety of people. What is needed to reach that point is lavish curiosity and the willingness to be a little awkward and embarrassed—qualities that indicate that we are, after all, merely human.

key intentional questions: • What is most important to you about this? • What is surprising to you right now? • What is inspiring you? • What is challenging you?

Think deliberately. Use this remarkable gift of consciousness to direct your thoughts rather than being pushed around by reality.

The poet William Butler Yeats said, "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

They certainly read and watch videos like the rest of us. But they tend to spend much more time pouring information out of their consciousness than sucking information into their consciousness.

Focus is when attention is centered in the meditative state. Then mind wandering begins. We become aware that the mind is wandering, then shift ourselves back into focus. Seeing meditation as this four-part cycle, rather than as a single ideal state, gives us a more realistic picture of what to expect in our meditation sessions.

The entire universe may be self-aware.

By choosing these practices, we use our minds deliberately in order to induce transcendent states. Such states become not an inadvertent happy accident, but a lifestyle upgrade that we have deliberately installed.

How do you casually listen to something that makes the walls of your heart crumble?

You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture

As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out

I first realized I was psychic next Monday

De-calcify the pineal gland with the detergent of imagination

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life

Do clocks tell time or does time tell clocks

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.

Those who try and fix the world are usually those who have trouble fixing the fundamental problems in their own lives

The answer to the question 'what is consciousness' is answered by the fact that there is a question

The first two things Gaudencio Rivera was made aware of--within hours of arriving by carabao-drawn cart at the secluded town of Tagbaoran on the island province of Palawan--were these: that the most beautiful woman in creation dwelt by the river, and that it was pointless to even dream of being loved by her.