Naomi Judd Quotes

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that "I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.