Quotes About Awareness

Que Cristo nos ama es el gran secreto, el secreto más íntimo de cada alma. Es la realidad más inconcebible; es una realidad que cambiaría completamente la vida de cualquiera que se diera cuenta de ello plenamente. Pero para darse cuenta de ello no basta un mero conocimiento teórico, sino una vivencia de este amor similar a la que se tiene del amor de la persona amada. (p. 16)

Al igual que las nubes que se forman en el cielo permanecen cierto tiempo en él y luego se disuelven en el vacío del espacio, los pensamientos ilusorios surgen, duran un momento y después se desvanecen en la vacuidad de la mente. De hecho no ha pasado realmente nada.

Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation... Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.

If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.

Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

When ignorance disappears, so too does the distiction between self and others.

Do not waste a single moment, like a warrior who, pierced to the heart by an arrow, knows he has only few minutes to live. It is now, while we are in good health and in possession of all our physical and mental faculties, that we should practice dharma.

Dès l'instant de la naissance, la vie se précipite vers la mort en ignorant tout à fait quand la rencontre aura lieu.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which makes the real interest of travelling.

Mais Drogo ignorait ce qu'était le temps.

Quanto tempo davanti! Lunghissimo gli pareva anche un solo anno e gli anni buoni erano appena cominciati; sembravano formare una serie lunghissima, di cui era impossibile scorgere il fondo, un tesoro ancora intatto e così grande da potersi annoiare. Nessuno c'era che gli dicesse: "Attento, Giovanni Drogo!". La vita gli appariva inesauribile, ostinata illusione, benché la giovinezza fosse già cominciata a sfiorire. Ma Drogo non conosceva il tempo.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

Jelkes came to the conclusion that Mona knew exactly what she was doing, and that it was not the slightest use to speak to her.

Life, the permission to know death.

Robin told only a little of her life, but she kept repeating in one way or another her wish for a home, as if she were afraid she would be lost again, as if she were aware, without conscious knowledge, that she belonged to Nora, and that if Nora did not make it permanent by her own strength, she would forget.

Sometimes to be utterly innocent," he went on, "would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.