Awareness Quote by Joan D. Chittister Download Open image “To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.” — Joan D. Chittister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awareness Enlightened Heaven Inspirational Knows
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject… — Robert Thurman Copy Share
To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass of water. I can obtain joy, peace, and happiness just because of that enlightenment. When you look at the blue sky and are aware of it, the sky becomes real, and you become real. That is enlightenment, and… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.” — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world. — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
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