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Awareness Quotes
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
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"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
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"I realized it was like looking into the sun-you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else."
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"Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware."
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"Don't try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you."
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"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
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"Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate."
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"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
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"These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."
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"You have an internal brake which you are most likely unaware of."
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"God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth."
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"We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them, and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen."
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"Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless."
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"Yes, well-he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately-'the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip tracers we were nearby when she accidentally used her abilities to move a light pole out of the road after she had accidentally backed into it.'Someone better shut their mouth before I accidentally slam my fist into their teeth. She punched his shoulder, and it was almost...playful.'Shut his mouth, fist into his teeth.'Really? A grammar lesson?"
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"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."
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"If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the true colors of facts. ['Behind the frosted glass']"
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"Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness."
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"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."
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"It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey."
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"What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become."
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"Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered."
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"Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes."
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"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."
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"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift."
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"It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human."
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"When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens."
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"It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind."
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"To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."
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"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."
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"Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself."
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"There are things you can't reach. ButYou can reach out to them, and all day long.The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing aroundAs though with your arms open."
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"Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit."
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"Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown."
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"Why should i blame world, if i get wrong to recognize true and real faces of people."
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"I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"
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"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me."
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"In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble - a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal - than what you think of yourself."
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"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."
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"If I were to go back in time with the knowledge that I have today about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), I would invest the money into changing the electrical characteristics of my body and exhaust that route first, particularly if no one else in the home is showing the condition. If everyone is sick in the home, it is probably an environmental issue that warrants expense on changing the environmental factors."
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"It felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between."
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"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."
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