Quotes about Awareness

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.