Quotes About Awareness

Life probably does not hand us any more visceral experience of how we mistakenly define ourselves than by means of our physical body. From the day we were born, the message we received from the world was that we are our body. This was the first great lie we were given by means of the collective consciousness of humankind, which has always valued itself from the outside in.

Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is uniquely expressed. Redefining moments are simply energy vortexes that draw the authentic self up (vertically) and out (horizontally) and into present moment awareness, revealing it to the light of day and the gifts it holds.

You don't have to go on a quest to "find" silence-it's a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain. The question is, how much silence can you bear? How deep are you willing to go below surface living to reconnect with who you truly are?

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in a 7-Eleven, OK?

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

The Shakers had a saying: "Live as though you had ten thousand years, or ten minutes.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

You know what's amazing about life. Enjoying what you see.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

These portals of consciousness, and one of them is called me.

Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more?

She couldn't put into words how desparately she wanted to know what had happened to Sarah. But she'd suddenly realized that Sarah was not the only one who had lost her memory of what happened when she was a little girl. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost their memories of what had happened to them ...

It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.' Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her

Aceptar su ignorancia es el primer paso hacia el conocimiento. Reconociendo la oscuridad que te rodea te llevará a la senda de la iluminación. Harás lo tanto conocen y aceptan tus limitaciones, con el fin de superarlas con éxito.

Be thankful to your enemies, because they're always the first ones to find your faults that you never knew about. Also wish them a long life, so that they'll see you succeed in life....there is nothing in this world that would annoy them more.

Cuando las personas pasan por fase de la negación en vez de aceptar la verdad, no se dan cuenta de que lo que se niegan a aceptar siempre sigue a quedarse con ellos. La vida se mueve tan pronto como aceptamos la pura verdad, porque sólo la verdad puede hacernos libres.

Don't waste your precious time in either dwelling in the Past, or dreaming of the Future. Focus on the Present instead. Life is like a Newspaper, which is as good as the freshness of the news it brings everyday. Always be in sync with the Present!

Hay sólo dos tipos de personas en este mundo- los que piensan que hay dos clases de personas, y los que han conocido la verdad.

October has been recognized as the National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) since 1945. It's also the best time to highlight the fact that there is no greater disability in this world than one's inadequacy to treat other people with dignity and respect they truly deserve; regardless of their color, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. Happy NDEAM!

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

Rara vez vemos el mundo tal como es; pero a menudo vemos el mundo tal como somos.