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… awareness is everything. Not just part of it. Not some aspect of it. Awareness is everything. Look, therefore, to your awareness, not to your thoughts. Your thoughts about things can betray you – and often do – because they can be colored by emotions. Your awareness cannot. Just observe what is so. Then observe what you think about what is so. Then ask yourself, “Why am I thinking that?” And, more important, “What would happen if I thought something else?”
Neale Donald Walsch (see works by Neale Donald Walsch )
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W Clement Stone (see works by W Clement Stone )
Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.
Gary Zukav (see works by Gary Zukav )
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
No one should ever feel bad if Self-Observation reveals that he or she is presently on a lower level. On the contrary, we should be glad, for only this discovery makes upliftment possible. It is the foolish person who imagines he has nothing to learn. Also, remember, the Mystic Path has no moral judgments. There are no such things as good and bad, superior or inferior. We don't consider a five-year old child inferior to a child often. We simply realize that everyone is on a different level of insight and awareness.
The Daily Guru
Head-gear is a seal of protection for the two temple doors – the crown and third eye chakra. Some cultures realized the spiritual significance of this, while others continued the tradition of head-gear, justifying it as work or fashion-related. Nonetheless, whether or not societies have been conscious of the highest purpose of head-gear, throughout history both men and women have embraced the idea of covering the crown and third eye chakra.
from The Impeccable Warrior of Light, by Peace Mother Geeta Sacred Song
I don’t care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It’s destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.
from Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho (see works by Paulo Coelho )
…it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
Descartes (see works by Descartes )
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us
as effects.
Herman Melville
Ignorance is an accumulation of thoughts undigested.
Ragunath Padmanabhan
I believe everyday your life speaks to you – through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.
Oprah Winfrey (see works by Oprah Winfrey )
To live more voluntarily is to live more deliberately, intentionally and purposefully – in short, it is to live more consciously. We cannot be deliberate when we are distracted from life. We cannot be intentional when we are not paying attention. We cannot be purposeful when we are not being present.
Duane Elgin
As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981) American peace activist (see works by or about Peace Pilgrim )
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller (see works by Henry Miller )
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?"
Rachel Carson
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.
Elizabeth Gilbert from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway
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