Orson Scott Card Quotes

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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.

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Awareness is always the first step.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I discovered myself!

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I think I surprise myself.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

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