Awareness Quotes

4 Don’t Die™ Principles:• Change your awareness and your perspective changes.• You teach what you need to learn.• You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both.• Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.

~ Suzy Kassem

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was experienced in its unmanifest form as beingness or awareness and in its manifest form as the appearance of the universe.

~ David Godman

It is in community where we find our very selves.

~ Chris Matakas

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

~ Miranda July

When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.

~ Walter Terence Stace

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows...... This is where love is taking me.You have been leadingMe, angels, in and out of death.I have no idea who you are.Eurydice. Is she nothingOr is she your mirror?I don't know anymore.I am at war.Perhaps that which is given - Being human - Is too hard,And so it is love that brings us,To what cannot be born,To ourselves,And so we must change,Must descend, guided by love, into the unknown.Lovers disappear in each other.Do they disappear forever?Where do they go?

~ Kathy Acker

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is.

~ T.f. Hodge

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

~ Robert Mckee

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you’re looking for that one person who can change your life, take a look in the mirror.

~ R. Price

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it.

~ Gary Hopkins

Nothing from the past can still exist unless we drag it into the present moment through our minds. Holding onto past pain creates present pain. Holding onto old fears creates new fears. Holding onto former injuries caused by others is an act of current self-injury. What’s done is gone. The only way it can live within us again is through our willingness to revive it in this moment.

~ Emily Maroutian

Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the physically painful impotence and sorrow that assail me when I see a man weeping at the bus stop, when I observe people struggling vainly to get close to others, when I see someone eating up the left-overs in a cheap restaurant, when I see the first blotches on a woman's hand and know that she too is bitterly aware of them, when I see the kind of appalling and irreparable injustice that so visibly scars the human face. I want this pain to come across to my audience, to see this physical agony, which I think I am beginning to fathom, to seep into my work.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how to raise awareness so that other people didn’t have to suffer the same, and how to understand, and then challenge, offenders who so love what they do to children that they can and must shut their minds to the feelings of children who have put their trust in them. P4

~ Beatrix Campbell

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

~ Nancy Farmer

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

~ Criss Jami

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.

~ Benilde Little

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the raw material of drastic change. Crisis spurs critical, dramatic shifts in a person’s psyche. Only a person who is willing to lose everything will transform himself or herself. Only by moving outside our comfort zone of the past – letting go of a former being – will a person expand their state of conscious awareness. Now that I am desperate, I am dangerous. I am also ripe for transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster