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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

Life Values Awareness Depends Survival Ultimate Philosophical Mere Contemplation Spiritual Awareness Value Of Life Conscious Awareness

Author:Aristotle

“To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.”

Life Ends Accepting Awareness Karma Mortals Nurture Dharma Goes Around Comes Around

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.”

Thinking Life Whole Light Action Energy Emotion Practice Darkness Awareness Discipline Enlightenment Appropriate Ritual Mastery Self Mastery Egomania

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not to bring awareness to it, and struggle to put an end to it.”

Life Long Doe Ends Done Opinion Struggle Awareness Amount Excuse Quantity Irresponsible Ratios Being Done

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.”

Life Inspirational Made Ideas Self Change Awareness Elements Caught Separation Entity True Self Interconnected

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.”

Life Morning Awareness Return Awakening Mortality Life Death Awareness Of Death

Author:Mason Cooley

“Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.”

“Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.”

Life Mind Heart Body Kindness Awareness Yoga Calmness

Author:Amit Ray

“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”

Life Pain Success Grace Awareness Difficulty Absence Hesitation Incongruity

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”