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Awareness Quotes


"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."



"I am Chandubhai' is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does 'charging' of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of 'who I am?'."


"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."


"Many people are confused by their own behavior."


"I wish I could fly.I wish I were rich.I wish I had more time."But you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes."


"To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear."


"Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries."


"We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us."


"When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain."


"If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!"


"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."


"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."


"The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that."


"See a day,not with the open eyes,but with the open mind from far away."


"May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target!"



"People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man."


"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."


"Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind."


"There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline."


"There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise."


"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."


"Remember:It's all in your head. all of it.If you don't like the story, change it.If the people around don't accept your new story; change them."


"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."


"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."


"One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds."


"He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind."


"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."


"The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body."


"If you give a five thousand dollar diamond ring to a two year old child, sooner or later, that child is going to lose the treasure. Even though you could have meant well, yet the child would misplace the diamond. It is obvious because that child doesn't know the value of a diamond ring."


"Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world."



"God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don't you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?"


"You must remember that whether you like it or not, every day your life is diminishing, your life is reducing and your life is pouring out. Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don't convert it to anything, it's your problem. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing."


"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"


"If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake."
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