Awareness Quotes

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I am LifeYour pure essence, spirit and seed of existence itself,That lies within you, longing to awaken and flourish.I am long before you and after you, never born, never die,timeless, without boundaries.I am pure unconditional love, wholeness,connectedness, freedom, bliss,joy, peace, stillness.I am That beyond the gross and limited,yet you are blinded.You choose the illusion that you have controlthrough grasping and being caughtby all that is unreal and comes and goes.You think you are alive but you barely know Life.You choose separation.It is time to wake up!Have strength, courage and trust to let go.Surrender the fear and all that imprisons you.I am beyond mind, thoughts, emotions, ego, conditioning, desires, needs, attachments, memories, dreams, goals, forms, identities, ideas.Beyond all that arises.When all that I am not is released and let go, I AM....Total, whole, eternal,infinite.And such also is all that arises.No more questions.Home.No more you, I, us.No more words.

~ Patsie Smith

We, through the cerebral cortex, add the consciousness, spirit and rationality, to this dolphin brained human body avatar. We control our destiny and this body can become a servant of our conscious will, once we learn to communicate fully with it. We are called to bridge the gap between our conscious mind and the subconscious mind.

~ Kevin Michel

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

~ Anthony Liccione

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.

~ Etienne De L'amour

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water.

~ Rixa White

Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing.

~ Garey Gordon

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.

~ Belsebuub

There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through synchronistic and serendipitous events.

~ Hannelie Venucia

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.

~ Kat Lahr

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

I would like to show that we can become so much more through awareness. That is why I speak of conscious evolution. If we understand ourselves, how we think and react, why we do things... Then we can work out how to think more constructively, act more usefully, do things more easily, become more of the person we really want to be deep down inside.

~ Julia Woodman

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

~ Criss Jami

Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. (Living on probation)

~ Erik Pevernagie

There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences.

~ Chris Matakas

Consider how the sky is unharmed by the clouds that pass through it, whether they are light and fluffy-looking or dark and formidable. A mountain is not moved by the winds blowing over it, whether gentle or fierce. The ocean is not destroyed by the waves moving on its surface, whether high or low. In just that way, no matter what we experience, some aspect of ourselves remains unharmed. This is the innate happiness of awareness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend—about what, I don’t recall—and realized that I had ceased to be concerned about myself. I was no longer anxious, self-critical, guarded by irony, in competition, avoiding embarrassment, ruminating about the past and future, or making any other gesture of thought or attention that separated me from him. I was no longer watching myself through another person’s eyes.

~ Sam Harris

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one’s mind or body—thoughts, sensations, moods—without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant.

~ Sam Harris

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

~ Aldous Huxley

Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

~ David Amerland

The less human you feel, the more human you become.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Unconditional love goes beyond holding on and letting go. Real love is about truth. It's about looking at what's really going on instead of the stories we tell ourselves about it. It's about being able to love someone from afar, when we need to, because we see that closeness turns us into the worst versions of ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I stared at the stop sign and even though I was only five I thought, I will remember that stop sign for the rest of my life. The dents and the bumps, the colors and the shape, the three-fingered, black scuff and long silver scrape - even the dirty gray sky behind it. Days will go by and I will grow old but from time to time the image of this stop sign will come to my mind and I will think about it and remember what I was thinking at this exact time. I even remember thinking that I was awfully young to have such a profound thought and premonition but there it was.

~ April Adams

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

~ Joseph Campbell

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

~ A.j. Darkholme

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

~ A.j. Darkholme

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

~ Ben Marcus

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An analogy, of course, is found in any psychoanalytic treatment: the patient is rigidly determined by past experiences and previously developed patterns to the extent that he is unaware of these experiences and patterns.

~ Rollo May

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual, the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.

~ Criss Jami

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul

~ Jeremy Aldana

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

~ Dale Partridge