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Awareness Quotes
"We awaken by asking the right questions."
"Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."
"The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it-just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her."
"There should not be opinion regarding anything. Opinion means you are supporting it. 'Know' the wrong as wrong, 'Know' right as right. There should not be any attachment (raag) towards the right, and abhorrence (dwesh) towards the wrong. There is no such thing as right or wrong. Right and wrong is a duality, it is illusionary vision, it is a societal belief. God does not see it that way. In God's view, having a dinner on the table or going to toilet, they are both the same."
"There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?"
"Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease."
"The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought."
"It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference."
"See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself."
"You do not necessarily lose concentration, you only allow something else to take control of a greater portion of your attentiveness and attention at any given moment of time."
"Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."
"No one needs to hit rock bottom to change. And yet so many people do, only because most of us are unskilled in communicating with ourselves.Stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, illness ... these are all symptoms of a bigger problem. You're trying to tell yourself something. Loudly.Listen now or listen later. There is no ignoring the call."
"It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind."
"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
"Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected."
"Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded."
"I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect."
"How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at."
"Being here is such a contrast to where I'd otherwise be."
"Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media."
"You have to look closely to see clearly."
"Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that."
"Life is a dance of consciousness."
"Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge."
"I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way."
"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"
"Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ['Living on probation']"
"For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time."
"A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown."
"Become keenly aware of these three layers to discover whether you're listening with interest and intent for excellent communication and understanding-or are you unintentionally sabotaging potentially phenomenal conversations. Knowledge of the listening planes will raise your awareness. And as you apply these, enjoy the surprising difference."
"Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance."
"What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life."
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