“The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.” Has BeensSelfMomentsLife IsConsciousnessAwarenessConfidenceQuietSkillsSelf AwarenessArenaExaminationExaminingSelf ConsciousnessSelf-examinationQuiet Moments Author:Jo Coudert
“To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.” LightSpiritDesireAwarenessDivineQuietStriveReceptiveDesire To LearnLight And Knowledge Author:L. Lionel Kendrick
“When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.” KnowsWorldMindTwoSelfAwarenessPersonalityPureQuietObjectivesWitnessSnapsIdentification Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.” ChildrenStoriesSongAwarenessQuietEssentialsQuietnessSleepyQuiet TimeChildren's LiteratureChildren Literature Author:Margaret Wise Brown
“The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.” MindFirstsAwarenessFrontsQuietConsciousRelaxCommentary Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.” SoundSilenceAwarenessListeningQuietDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“All of life is to be lived in the presence and power of God, not just for a few minutes or even an hour in the morning. It's as though we want to take a tiny nibble of spiritual food and hope that sustains us for a while; then we wonder why we're so weary and unable to live as Christ calls us to live. To truly enjoy the abundant life Jesus invited us into, we need to be more aware of God all the time, just as he was. We need that regular, focused quiet time, but we also need to take our awareness of and commitment to God into our more numerous "noisy times".” SpiritualJesusEnjoyChristHoursWonderMorningAwarenessQuietCommitmentFocusedPower Of GodQuiet Time Author:Kenneth Boa
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part” WorldNeedsMindDoeSelfLightHappensEnergyEffortSunMeditationAwarenessQuietMiracleWake UpSelf AwarenessCalmActiveAwakeningRisingSteady Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.” WorldNeedsMayChildrenStoriesTodaySongGreaterModernChildhoodAwarenessActivityQuietEssentialsModern WorldStressedOverlookedQuietnessSleepyManiaQuiet TimeChildren's LiteratureChildren Literature Author:Margaret Wise Brown
“The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.” NeedsSaidRealWholeWaterAnswersAwarenessSourceQuietSpringAcceptedRanFascinatingRejectsWoundedDiscipleDesperationTransactionsFervorBeing AcceptedSamaritansLunchtimeQuiet Desperation Author:Ravi Zacharias
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” WayEnoughStoriesSpeakNatureNaturalPayAttentionEnvironmentLandAwarenessQuietGardenPatiencePatientPay AttentionNature And EnvironmentNature BeautyInspirational NatureNature And BeautyThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyInspiring NatureBeing NaturalChildren And NatureTime And Patience Author:Linda Hogan
“As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss.” ShouldTryingPassionJesusPrayerToo MuchAwarenessDivinePrayingQuietBlessedSilentDevotionSacramentsTopicsBlessed Sacrament Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.” WorldDreamAwarenessDisciplineQuietMirrorsMediationDream WorldQuiet TimeRotationDaily Discipline Author:Stuart Wilde
“A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.” IfsMenHeartMayDoeSelfEyeCareOrderAwarenessMovementQuietSelf AwarenessHis EyesCentreIf You Care Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.” WorldPersonsWould BeSpaceAwarenessQuietEssentialsPerceptionPagesStillnessStillness Speaks Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.” TwoFormSpacePayAttentionAwarenessPureQuietConversationBreathsNotesSilentArisePay AttentionPianoDimensionsGapsWithin YouIdentificationSpace BetweenFlutes Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.” KnowsMindBodyKnownCreativeMeditationAwarenessQuietEmptyBreathsCalmYour BodyWitnessEmptinessCall MeBe CreativeFullnessVastnessWatchers Author:Rajneesh