Quotes About Awareness

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity.