“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.” DifferentBodyPastEnergyAbilityPracticeAwarenessBuddhismAccessThis LifePlanesLinkedPast LifeAuras Author:Frederick Lenz
“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.” FirstsLongDreamPracticeMagicConditionsAwarenessBuddhismHigherThickStopping Author:Frederick Lenz
“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.” MindUseBodyMovingOrderPracticeAwarenessMovementHealthBuddhismMind And BodyMundaneAthleticsBody Movement Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.” WayArtPracticeMeditationAwarenessBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.” ThinkingPerfectConsciousnessPracticeMeditationAwarenessBuddhismHighestAspectFlowOur ThoughtsStoppingInterruptions Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” ThinkingLifeWholeLightActionEnergyEmotionPracticeDarknessAwarenessDisciplineEnlightenmentAppropriateRitualMasterySelf MasteryEgomania Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.” KnowsWellsKindHas BeensProblemBodyBigsTurnsNextPayAttentionPracticeNiceAwarenessMindfulnessCellsPay AttentionShowersNext TimeToesAvoidingBaths Author:Nhat Hanh
“It's important that we regularly reconsider, revise, and expand our practices, as our capabilities and needs evolve, both to strengthen our understanding of them and to promote our awareness of new practices and their conscientious uses.” NeedsImportantUseUnderstandingPracticeAwarenessPhotographerEvolveCapability Author:John Paul Caponigro
“An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.” PeopleThinkingImportantRememberEnergySpeakWaitingProcessLeadershipLeaderPrinciplesPracticeHeardGroupsAwarenessWillingHappeningsConsciousFlowTrackCommunicateRemindingSpeaks Out Author:Diane Dreher
“When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.” IfsThinkingFeelsBodyPracticeMeditationAwarenessHappeningsYour BodyWarmthMeditation Practice Author:Gil Fronsdal
“I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.” KnowsShouldMomentsCharacterQualityPracticeAwarenessImportanceResponsePhotographerObviousMediumsDedicationIntuitive Author:Ansel Adams
“When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.” ThinkingMindIdeasHappensNaturalBreakPracticeCasesMeditationAwarenessIdentityPositionIllusionWitnessMysticalTranscendent Author:James Redfield
“It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.” HeartPracticeProgressAwarenessGreat Progress Author:Michael Langford