Awareness Quotes - Page 23

My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.

When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.

The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don't matter.

Ignorance is constricted awareness.

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

The Confucians paid a great deal attention to ritual, highlighting the ones that expressed the sorts of affective attitudes one wants to cultivate, engaging in them with keen awareness of their value for shaping and reshaping the self, and insisting on the need to be emotionally present to their significance for one's relationship to others. If we Americans want to rebuild our capacities for a shared life, we would do well to pay attention to all this.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.

Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

To be fearless is to be reckless. I think you need a certain level of fear because you need to respect the danger and the minute you stop sensing fear, that's the minute you stop respecting the danger, and that's when things can happen. Obviously, you can't panic. It can't be overwhelming. It can't be paralyzing. You always need to have that pit in your stomach. You always need to have that awareness about you.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

The Presence of the demon keeps the chakra from doing its job, but that challenge also forces us to bring more awareness to that job, so eventually we can do it better.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.