Thought Awareness Quotes

#1. The moment that we are aware of our thoughts we are present.

It takes no-mind to recognize our thoughts because mind and no-mind can not co-exist

Presence and Mind can not co-exist. So therefor presence, thought awareness and no-mind are one.

Matthew Donnelly

#2. Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

Rajneesh

#3. Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.

Andrew Zolli

#4. Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

Toni Packer

#5. Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

Enza Vita

#6. Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

H.W.L. Poonja

#7. Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Anthony De Mello

#8. Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.

Nathaniel Fick

#10. She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

Kamand Kojouri

#11. When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because I had read a book that had spoken of how they lived and thought, I identified myself with that book.

Richard Wright

#13. Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn.

Rico Dasheem

#14. What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet?

Debra Formo

#15. Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you have no idea what treasures hide within you you'll be searching your entire life.

Nikki Rowe

#16. I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

Walt Whitman

#17. The shelf where you can find the power to kick start is the shelf of self-confidence. No matter how loaded you are with the right information, you need to pull yourself out!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

Markus Zusak

#19. You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul.

Renae A. Sauter

#20. Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought.
Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action.
Action to realization, and back again to thoughts.
For the mind is made up of words, language and logic, until it dissolves into consciousness.

Gian Kumar

#21. Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

Chris Matakas

#22. You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

Robert M. Pirsig

#23. Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

A.J. Darkholme

#24. Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind
that is, without our awareness,

Gerald Zaltman

#25. You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

Barry Long

#26. Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.

Ayn Rand

#27. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.

Debasish Mridha

#28. My eyes were heavy, and my awareness hung on by the thinnest of threads, but I thought I heard him mutter. "I think I will keep you.

Amy Harmon

#29. As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

David Brooks

#30. maybe, I thought, we were all circus mice, running around with only the dimmest awareness that God and all His heavenly host were watching us in our Bakelite houses through our ivy-glass windows.

Stephen King

#31. When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.

Deepak Chopra

#32. Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

Michael Persinger

#33. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.

Dan Mager

#34. The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

A.J. Darkholme

#35. Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because we see the tremendous jumps we make in awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#36. A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.

Mooji

#37. Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.

Tarthang Tulku

#38. The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.

Frederick Lenz

#39. You are not who you think.
You're not even the thinker.
You are the one conscious of the thought.

Kamand Kojouri

#40. Furthermore, as is typical for any isolated, intelligent young person, I thought I was the only one with any consciousness, any awareness of how odd it was to be alive, to be a creature on this strange planet Earth.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#41. I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Nicolas Cage

#42. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. Once the mind has seen through all fear and all hope, it finds peace within itself, in a state of awareness beyond thought.

Alan W. Watts

#44. As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.

Frederick Lenz

#45. Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.

Enza Vita

#46. Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#47. It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

Elizabeth Thornton

#48. It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death ...

Thomas H. Cook

#49. If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression.

Frederick Lenz

#50. When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

#51. The whole point of applying mindfulness is that it allows you to catch negative thought patterns before they consume you because it involves a conscious direction of your awareness.

Golden Ink

#52. If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.

Goswami Kriyananda

#53. The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#54. Our tomorrows must be met at the time of their arrival ... with the HOPE they are as BEAUTIFUL as today!

Joe Peterson

#55. If I say, "I am weak," I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, "I cannot," "I'm not the type to," "I am not able," then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Vironika Tugaleva

#56. Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret.

Matthew Donnelly

#57. Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#58. The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

Frederick Lenz

#59. The closest thing to perfection is imperfection

Kamand Kojouri

#60. Each positive thought, every vibrant attitude, all purposeful activities water the seeds for success along your path. You will encounter many seeds for success today. Pay attention to these and feed them appropriately. Then maintain their beautiful growth through conscious self-care.

Rebecca Gordon

#61. Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness.

Jenna Alatari

#62. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#63. The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you'd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you'd thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.

Christopher Hawke

#64. Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#65. Once you're facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought.

John De Ruiter

#66. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.

Vivian Amis

#67. I meditate at airports because those are the places where I'm extremely tense, and I often meditate while I'm walking down the street. I have a thought and become aware of that thought and thereby create another level of awareness.

Pankaj Mishra

#68. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#69. The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness.

Vironika Tugaleva

#70. Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence ... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

Gautama Buddha

#71. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#72. No amount of money can buy you style. Having good style takes thought, creativity, confidence, self-awareness, even sometimes a little bit of work.

Sophia Amoruso

#73. May I live this day ... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes

John O'Donohue

#74. Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

Vivian Amis

#75. Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

Bruce Lee

#76. Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition
that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

Scott Adams

#77. If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature.

Carl R. Rogers

#78. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Eckhart Tolle

#79. The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

Matt Taibbi

#80. Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

Deepak Chopra

#81. Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.

Walter Benjamin

#82. Our every thought reflects our level of awareness, consciousness, and love for this amazing world that we call home.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that's bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside ... thus creating pain ... but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel

Jeremy Aldana

#84. It was true; it was somehow not even a surprise, more like a truth that had grown for some time on the edge of his awareness, now brought into sharp relief. He thought: two thrones for the price of a few hire swords and a dose of pleasure drug.

C.S. Pacat

#85. Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#86. You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

Jean Klein

#87. The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can't really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

Adyashanti

#88. And at every moment as I lived my life, I countered this awareness with an exasperated companion thought, namely, Don't be an idiot. You're not a girl. Get over it. But I never got over it.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#89. Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.

Vironika Tugaleva

#90. Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process.

Stephen R. Covey

#91. The fact was I never had the tools for proper living, because my family never had the tools, and I thought the entire human race was like that.

Joe Pantoliano

#92. While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Raquel Cepeda

#93. Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

Marjorie Grene

#94. People underestimate the stars and the connectedness they bring between spirit and matter. More often than not, when lost, we seek solitude in staring into the darkness hoping something speaks back to us, usually through a feeling, a thought or a rare occurrence of a shooting star.

Nikki Rowe

#95. Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.

Loch Kelly

#96. Awareness is not an idea about awareness, as it is not thought at all. Awareness allows you to feel life as it's happening, as it is in perception that consciousness and all spiritual qualities are manifest.

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