c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.
— Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road
When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.
— Marty Rubin
Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.
— Joan Tollifson
Knowingness: I am like a newborn baby every day I wake up with a new slate to create.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa, We R 1
Remove the fear and recover your finite self.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa, We R 1
Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret.
— Matthew Donnelly
An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
— Shannon L. Alder
The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence.
— Rae Mariz
Intention and awareness are the two tools that enable us to create anything our heart desires from the universe.
— Russell Eric Dobda
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
— Bodhidharma
What is vapour, than a different state of water ?what is ice-block than a different state of water?how did we come to separate the Word from the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit from God ?Who told us salvation and Healing were different ?Must i feel healed or religious to know that i have it all ?Same price was paid for both. the fact that its not solidify doesn't mean it doesn't exist.My Dear, You do have it all
— Mary Tornyenyor
Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.Three or four nights later I had a dream. I was driving. To my right I sawbaby cranes — blue-green, all legs, beak, and wings — standing in a field. They took off and crashed, took off and crashed. I stopped the car and got out. "That looks like it hurts. Why do you do it?" One of the cranes looked me square in the eye. "We may not fly very well yet, but at least we aren't walking."I awoke, happy. From that moment, there has been no turning back.
— Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
Affirmation: My Father/Mother God is embracing me and holding me so tightly that nothing can stop nor touch me.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa, We R 1
Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa, We R 1
Fish would probably be the last of all creatures to discover water.
— Flavil R. Yeakley Jr., Why They Left: Listening to Those Who Have Left Churches of Christ
The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.
— Nikki Rowe
You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
When life hurts, have a date with your feelings.Breath and let the magic begin!
— Ana Ortega
Success is all about falling in love with one idea!
— Kabira, How to Tame the Tiger: The Story of Peace and Everything Else
Some issues are not meant to be secret, Keep talking.
— Patrice M. Foster
Someday, Chinmay, perhaps when you are as old as I am, you will realize that we calibrate time as per our own convenience. The dates on the calendar do not matter by themselves, nor do the numbers on the clock. Only this moment counts, this moment alone, and that is because of the awareness that we bring to it.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without evn knowing that's what he's doing.
— Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
— Thylias Moss
When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both...Be Happy and keep smiling...
— Satish Kumar
For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.
— Aditya Ajmera
Liberation is the shift from 'What if?" to 'So what!
— Aditya Ajmera
In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they choose to make space for it. While outer conditions may stimulate the feeling of happiness, it can never come from anywhere other than within us. Authentic happiness isn't something we can go out and get, buy, borrow, or steal. Nor can any form of artificial sensory stimulus generate true happiness; it's only something we can be, and it's a choice we make with every breath we take.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.
— Aditya Ajmera
The child is more individualised than the adult, the patient more than the healthy man, the madman and the delinquent more than the normal and the non-delinquent. In each case, it is towards the first of these pairs that all the individualising mechanisms are turned in our civilisation and when one wishes to individualise the healthy, normal and law-abiding adult, it is always by asking him how much of the child he has in him, what secret madness lies within him, what fundamental crime he has dreamt of committing
— Michel Foucault
If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.
— SoyLaAzu
Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay, when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the centre of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider’s web.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
We are sailing in different boats and possibly we may possess a superior boat
—  but we must remember that we share the same river called life and death.
It's never crowded when you walk on your own path.
— Aditya Ajmera
I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, goingabout his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with respect. Did his failures in life lead him to seek solace in daydreams or did his wandering mind stand in the way of his potential success? One must have triggered the other, and then it would have been both working together. An empty life drives you to fantasies of fulfilment, which then form a deadly, vicious circle which can turn you into a cartoon, as it did poor Mitty. Or lead you to ruin like Madame Bovary.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Stupid people don’t always know that they’re stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong, they might notice that things don’t usually turn out the way they imagined, but very few of them think it’s because of them. That they’re the root of their own problems, so to speak. And that sort of thing can be very difficult to explain.
— Jonas Karlsson, The Room
Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible
— Diana Rasmussen, Snow White Darkness
Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision.
— Dr. Ernst Arnold
His worst fantasy her realityhe pulls the stringsdoes unspeakable thingsA sadistic entrancefor his acceptance
— Diana Rasmussen, Snow White Darkness
Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
It's not a question of whether a person's been inspired by God, the only question is, has that person realized it, or not?
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
Hope wins over experience every time.
— Marc Marcel
You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!
— Marc Marcel
Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.
— Jennifer Touma, Moment of Impact: Harness the Explosive Power of Three to Maximize Your Mind, Life, and Business
The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.
— Jennifer Touma, Moment of Impact: Harness the Explosive Power of Three to Maximize Your Mind, Life, and Business
Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.
— Joshunda Sanders
Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.
— Rebecca D. Costa
I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.
— Sandy   Hall, A Little Something Different
I decided to devote my life to telling my story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the world, and anyone who has endured the pain, the isolation and the betrayal of family members. I want survivors to know that they're not alone. I want children to have the opportunity to be happy and free from abuse.
— Cecibel Contreras
Awareness is not a prerequisite for change.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.
— Georgi Y. Johnson, I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty
Change can only begin with awareness.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
I am aware of my madness and what I need is someone else to see the beauty in my madness.
— Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
— Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is present. Perhaps it is all a call to compassion, to a deep embrace of this universe in all its bliss and pain and bitter-sweet glory. Perhaps we were never really in control of our lives, and perhaps we are constantly invited to remember this, since we constantly forget it. Perhaps suffering is not the enemy at all, and at its core, there is a first-hand, real-time lesson we must all learn, if we are to be truly human, and truly divine. Perhaps breakdown always contains breakthrough. Perhaps suffering is simply a right of passage, not a test or a punishment, nor a signpost to something in the future or past, but a direct pointer to the mystery of existence itself, here and now. Perhaps life cannot go 'wrong' at all.
— Jeff Foster
Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.
— Solange nicole
Life often goes along in a stream. The details float by like a leaf on a river. The current is pushing and pulling the leaf, but we do not see it because we are standing on the banks of the river. There are moments when the leaf is caught up in little eddies. Events pile up. They gather like twigs--like flotsam and jetsam--caught up in the stream of life. Time blocks and unblocks in little bursts at such places. Information pours through like water. The details crystallize. Various pressures and turbulences in the river, pouring into the sea of life, push and pull, but we do not see it. We do not see the leaf or the pushing and pulling.
— Michael Bunker, The WICK Omnibus Edition
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.
— Bill Ayers
Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Becoming conscious and aware is a journey itself, and we all struggle in that journey we call life. Instead of judging one another, help each other, not by convincing them of your truth but through letting them think for themselves by spreading knowledge. Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.
— Nynke Visser
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
— Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
As ages passed we the people, were all blinded and misled in their ventures, by the heralds of the past. In the art of suppression apartheid and slavery were born and raised. In the final stage we established our earth as a drain of fuel and the religion of money made his appearance.
— Nynke Visser
So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one’s being.
— Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
There are those who fear the sunset, worried they will never see light again. There are those who ignore the sunrise, squandering dawn, believing they will never run out of daylight. And then there are those who have learned to live in the sun's warmth, gauging time by its positions, thankful at night that the day happened. Be aware of time. Use it wisely. Be thankful for the light allotted.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.
— R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
YOU are becoming a new species. The vibrations in and around you are increasing in speed. YOU are all adjusting to these higher dimensional energies (consciously and unconsciously). Without awareness of this process, you may feel lost, overwhelmed, anxious and hopeless. WITH A SHIFT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU CAN THRIVE AS WELL AS CREATE YOUR FUTURE.
— Elaine Seiler, Your Multi-Dimensional Workbook: Exercises for Energetic Awakening
The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.
— Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words
The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
Once you understand who you are, you can become more of what you are.
— Linda Deir
What you don’t know fills the infinite universe. What you do know only fills your mind.
— Linda Deir
People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.
— Shannon L. Alder
Awareness without action is worthless.
— Phillip C. McGraw
If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But if they are held without an awareness of abstracting-if our mental maps are believed to be the territory-they are prejudices. As teachers or parents, we cannot help passing on to the young a certain amount of misinformation and error, however hard we may try not to. But if we teach them to be habitually conscious of the process of abstraction, we give them the means by which to free themselves from whatever erroneous notions we may have inadvertently taught them.
— S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action
Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.
— Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Once you are able to move beyond the concept of time, so too will you move beyond having any judging or condemning thoughts or feelings about any being, situation or event. When you have nothing to measure the successes and failures of you or anyone else against, then the perfection of each moment will be revealed to you consistently and with unwavering beauty.
— Timothy Moran
By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.
— Timothy Moran, The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation
News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.
— Lawrence Kleep
Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.
— John Stoker, Overcoming Fake Talk: How to Hold Real Conversations That Create Respect, Build Relationships, and Get Results
As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.
— Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap on the wrist. I learned at a young age that if I was ever going to see justice for the wrongs done to me, I had to find it myself.
— Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
Dear bullies, see that young boy you made fun of for crying? Last night his best friend committed suicide. See the girl you called fat? She's starving herself. See the old man you just made fun of cause of the ugly scars? He fought for our country. Post this if you're against bullying. I bet 95% of you won't.
— Marija Not sure if she penned it but I snagged it from her I love it
I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.
— Anna C. Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.
— Anna C. Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
By opening the door to my life, it is my hope and mission to shed light on the hidden wounds of abuse, to end the stigma and shame associated with abuse, and to show survivors true courage, strength, inspiration, and determination.
— Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness—an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the “chance coincidences”—strange synchronistic events in our life. We begin to realize that some underlying process is operating our life.
— James Redfield
Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.
— Charlie Caruso, Understanding y
As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.
— Genevieve Gerard
Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time
— Ceyhun Özsoylu
Dare to live by letting go.
— Tom Althouse
Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.
— Kitt Weagant, Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women
Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.
— James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen To Remember: A Journey From Perception To Knowledge, Peace Of Mind And Joy
Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Treat me as I am,and that I shall remain.Treat me as I wish to be,and that I shall become.
— Karl  Schmidt, Tiny Thoughts for Personal Transformation: change your thoughts change your life
Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
— Idries Shah
Walk slowly through the world and pay attention
— Marty Rubin
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
— Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.
— Dana Gore
The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all......58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates......43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald’s...
— Brian Tracy, The Luck Factor
The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...
— George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty
all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness
— John Geddes
An INDEPENDENT Mind......is a terrible thing to waste
— Dana Gore
It seems wise to spend time and energy on fixing the problems we see out there - but if we don't take a step back and see the OVERALL big picture - the real CAUSE of all of these results that we're focused on - our efforts will only go so far.
— Dana Gore
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
— Paul Tillich
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
— Dōgen, A Primer Of Soto Zen
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what’s going on in the lives of other people — what they’re thinking about, what they’re doing, what they’re looking at — by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We’re now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people’s lives.
— Clive Thompson
It was floating. Waiting. It had no sense of how long It had been in this state. Its awareness had retreated into a tiny core at the center of Its being, away from the searing torment of separation, Its very essence ripped apart. Never had It known such sensation. So It had retreated, further and deeper, wrapping Itself in a cocoon of Light; waiting only for a call, for an opening, that It might be reunited with Its Beloved. Waiting until... Something stirred within. Suddenly, there is a reaching, a pulling. Its awareness opens and It is caught in a field of gravity. It plunges down, irresistibly down toward the blue planet, unable to control or navigate.
— J. Valor, Salome
There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Selected Letters Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
This is it.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.
— S. Kelley Harrell
-Let us celebrate the joy and sorrow, Sidip suddenly recited, -the wonder and mystery of all we see, so that we might live and learn as we were meant to. They say of stardust we are formed, that the ocean flows through our veins, and our thoughts are of quantum particles strung together by slender threads of charged ions. Therefore all things are connected, all things have spirit, you, me, the animals, plants, rocks, the oceans, planets, stars and the whole universe, these quantum particles are forming webs of awareness focusing at the centre where dwells the collective unconsciousness of all that has and ever will exist.
— Andrew James Pritchard, To Revolt Is a People's Right
God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our consciousness starts to be divided from our being. We start to have an image of ourselves which blocks our true expression. How do we go from there? There are two ways of dealing with this situation. The first is to find a self-image one is comfortable with. This is what most people do. It has some advantages since it causes the mind to operate reasonably undisturbed and it brings some peace to most people. People who find and maintain a self-image they are comfortable with are generally known as ‘happy people’. It doesn’t mean a whole lot, because in fact this image they are comfortable with is completely fake. There is another road, the road of learning to get rid of all self-imagery. This is a hard road however and requires one to pretty much battle for the rest of ones life (which isn’t a bad thing at all since the sense and meaning of life are essentially to put up a good battle). One develops techniques to stop identifying with ones self-image. The more these mechanisms behind self-imagery are mastered the more easy it becomes to switch and correct ones identities. At some point we can simply get rid of the self-image and be reborn as the child we once were, but a different child who has the triumph of knowledge in his pocket.
— Martijn Benders
A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and not a little matter, whether we regard its pleasures or its pains. To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say, a man never was young because he has grown old, or never lived because he is now dead. The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it, nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone that is added to it. It is neither the first nor last hour of our existence, but the space that parts these two - not our exit nor our entrance upon the stage, but what we do, feel, and think while there - that we are to attend to in pronouncing sentence upon it.
— William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners
the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.
— Rajan Shrestha
did time exist before we could count it
— e.webb
This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality. Being co-conscious with her, he explained, would stop me from experiencing the feeling of leaving my body or dissociating.
— Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse
He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments, but of the improved exercise of his faculties, and an intimate sympathy with Nature. The meanest thing is not lost upon him, for he looks at it with an eye to itself, not merely to his own vanity or interest, or the opinion of the world. Even where there is neither beauty nor use—if that ever were—still there is truth, and a sufficient source of gratification in the indulgence of curiosity and activity of mind. The humblest printer is a true scholar; and the best of scholars - the scholar of Nature.
— William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners
God always knows our conscious, if it's bad He will stricken it, if it's good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you're dead to God.
— Anthony Liccione
I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans alone, afflicted with self-consciousness, imagine ourselves apart.
— Scott Russell Sanders, A Private History of Awe
We come from nothing... which, in reality, is everything; It is that pure energy, the space where Brahmn (energy) resides. Awareness of this absolute reality leads us to the ultimate truth about our lives. It is also through this awareness that Self within can deal with dualities in life, to discriminate and choose, leading to happiness and sadness. To find one's center one needs to respect both dual properties; bring the opposites closer, surrender and accept in oneness... and follow the path of bliss...
— Gian Kumar
Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now.
— Gian Kumar
We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external events are unstable, namely, that they are in perpetual change - a situation that Buddhist tradition definesas “impermanence” - they are very difficult to be managed, and this bring people to panic.This difficulty to experience a reality in which nothing is permanent, that all is in constant motion- change, belongs to the human incapacity to accept the discontinuity of an occurrence of events that are always unpredictable and new.Impermanence is a principle that is a natural thing, but, in relation to the social and interhuman fields, this becomes a problem: especially in the last ten years, we can witness scenarios where instability, turbulence and uncertainty, frantically increase and continue to increase. Instability and change are perceivable everywhere - from the personal interaction between people to economic instability: in poor words, we don’t know what the future will bring to us and we feel a continuous pressure.People feel a need for safety and stability, but this is an impossible thing in the conditions in which society finds itself, and here lies one of the main reasons why tensions, anxiety, and panic have became common situations.
— Andrea Dandolo, The Book of "Little Things"
(Whisper)There is no effort needed to become aware, just the attention directed inward towards the feelings and the life force. You only have to pray, beg, obey and follow the commandments of those ideas and thoughts that are worshiped in the mind and imagination. There you can be a prisoner and play the game according to their rules.It is far better to feel the life within you and observe your reactions to it, than to analyze and compare your life to others and their experiences. One requires the dignity and self-trust within of your own life experience and the other requires that you surrender your dignity and intelligence to others who say they are more qualified then you concerning your life experiences.The mind makes everything difficult in its search for truth and meaning, while the heart reveals to us the simplicity of the truth within us. Pay attention to your feelings, they reveal how you think and how far out of touch you can be with yourself. They can also reveal a healing wholeness when you let go and allow the god within you to reveal the mystery within the silence of you.
— Robert S. Cosmar
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.
— Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.
— Osho
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.
— Peace Pilgrim, Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin’s rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys.
— Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
— Jay Woodman
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.
— Rob McNamara, Strength to Awaken
Christ awareness is imperative."~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowing in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed.
— John Perkins, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.
— Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.
— Tammara Webber, Easy
No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.
— Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
Awareness Makes a Cure Possible.
— Sydney Davies
Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Our tomorrows must be met at the time of their arrival... with the HOPE they are as BEAUTIFUL as today!
— Joe  Peterson
Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes.I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind.The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.You left me in the dark.No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight.In the shadow of your heart.And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat.I tried to find the sound.But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness,So darkness I became.I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map.And knew that somehow I could find my way back.Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too.So I stayed in the darkness with you.
— Florence Welch
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.
— Kevin Malarkey, The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World
Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.
— Rachael Bermingham
Appreciation involves being alert to the positive aspects of the current situation and feeling thankful for what one has and for one's circumstances. This requires not only a positive perspective in the present but also conscious awareness of features in the surround. The latter, in fact, is something that may be surprisingly rare. Especially when we are engaging in routine activities, we often do so mindlessly (Langer, 1997) or as though we were on automatic pilot (Cialdini, 1993). If we learn to bring our attention to the current state, we can choose to focus on positive aspects of the situation and to remind ourselves of the potential sources of good feelings that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
— Sandra L. Schneider
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.
— Linda  Robinson
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan
Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.
— Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
If a man seeks you to understand him; listen closely, for what is really going on is nothing more that you manifesting your desire to seek yourself on a plateau of awareness that is not tangible
— Jeremy Aldana
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
And the tree was happy
— Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.
— Michael Cadnum, Flash
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.
— Alyson Noel, Saving Zoë
If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!
— Orson Welles
Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.
— Janette Rallison, My Fair Godmother
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
It made you happy...
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
— Stephen Fry
The key to happiness was achievable dreams.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
— Holly Bourne, The Manifesto on How to be Interesting
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
— Roald Dahl
One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.
— daily dose
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
— Groucho Marx
Don't give up on your own happy-evers.
— Nora Roberts, Genuine Lies
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
— J.D. Salinger
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...
— Ai Yazawa
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
— Steve Irwin
as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.
— Charles Bukowski