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Conscious living represents us at our best

• I believe that conscious living represents us at our best. When we humans are at our best, we celebrate the questing spirit in ourselves. We seek, we wonder, we invent, we make mistakes and learn from them; the quest goes on. When the questing spirit lives and breathes in us, we are safe to be around. We inspire creativity by our very presence. We are good times waiting to happen. Gay Hendricks
• Live consciously—take responsibility for your choices and actions—respect the rights of others—and follow your own bliss. Nathaniel Branden
• A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. Nathaniel Branden
• Conscious living is the art of feeling your feelings, speaking authentically, knowing your life purpose, and carrying out effective actions that contribute to your well-being and the well- being of others. Gay Hendricks
• Awareness,  Mindfulness,  Self-awareness,  Choice,  Attention,  Proactiveness,  Consciousness

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Living consciously allows you to take control of your life and elevate it…

• Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life. Eric Butterworth
• So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it? Neale Donald Walsch
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
• You have control over three things: what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life. Sonya Friedman
• And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that’s in the world. Michael Beckwith
• Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen
• Control,  Proactiveness

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…for you are only free to take control of what you are consciously aware of

• The first step toward personal freedom is awareness. We need to be aware that we are not free in order to be free. We need to be aware of what the problem is in order to solve the problem. Don Miguel Ruiz
• What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. Anthony de Mello
• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. Vernon Howard
• Until we know ourselves and are aware of ourselves as separate from others and from the environment—until we can be separated even from ourselves so that we can observe our own tendencies, thoughts, and desires—we have no foundation from which to know and respect other people, let alone create change within ourselves. Stephen Covey
• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler
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Self-observation and awareness is the beginning of self-transformation

• Self-observation is itself the beginning of transformation. Dennis Lewis
• Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self- observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. George Gurdjieff
• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. Abraham Maslow
• Self-awareness,  Self-knowledge,  Observation

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To live consciously, therefore, pay attention and be aware…

• There’s nothing so delightful as being aware. Would you rather live in darkness? Would you rather act and not be aware of your words? Would you rather listen to people and not be aware of what you’re hearing, or see things and not be aware of what you’re looking at? The great Socrates said, ‘The unaware life is not worth living.’ That’s a self- evident truth. Most people don’t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else’s—mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. Anthony de Mello
• Most of us actually just give lip service to a life of higher awareness; we don’t always want to undertake the necessary steps to create the life we desire. Wayne Dyer
• Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness. Ramana Maharshi
• The aim of life is to live, and to live means… to be aware, joyously, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
• Whether success or failure: the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. May Sarton
• Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Observe what is with undivided awareness. Bruce Lee
• One of the most important of all personal leadership skills is self-awareness. Robin Sharma
• Awareness,  Attention

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See your relationship with others as an opportunity to be conscious

• If you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer your salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. Eckhart Tolle
• Principles for healthy relationships

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Consciously observe yourself and your thoughts

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. Abraham H. Maslow
• The highest form of human intelligence is the ability to observe yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
• Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. Vernon Howard
• We may not be able to control the thoughts our mind throws at us, but we can choose to remain conscious and observe these thoughts rather than instantly reacting to them. Tina Su
• We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives. Thubten Chodron
• The best instruction is always to watch the mind. Patrul Rinpoche
• Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think, What you say and What you do! So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating! Allan Rufus
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Consciously be aware of your actions and behaviour

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. Vernon Howard
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
• One of the first principles of living consciously is to become aware of the contradictions that exist between our values and behaviors. What do you do when you notice your behavior is not matching up with your stated values?  Do you evade the truth? Or do you have the courage to modify your self-   concept or change your behavior so you’re in integrity?  Brian Johnson
• We cannot live for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
• Action,  Right action

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Consciously be aware of the choices you make in your life…

• Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results. Robin S. Sharma
• A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. Neale Donald Walsch
• When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. Scott Cloud Lee
• Find out why you are doing things. When you do, your life will change. Richard Rose
• Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results. Robin S. Sharma
• Choice,  Decision making

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Consciously be aware of the way you respond to events in your life – and realise you are free to choose

• We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. Epictetus
• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose. Viktor Frankyl
• While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses. Stephen Covey
• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness. Stephen Covey
• Pay attention the next time you feel yourself being triggered and see if you can sneak into that little space between stimulus and response and actually STOP the automatic, knee- jerk response and choose a more empowered one. Brian Johnson
• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Stephen Covey
• Realise you can control how you respond to events

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Consciously pay attention to what works and what doesn’t in your life – and experiment

• One of the meanings of living consciously is: Pay attention to what works, and do more of it, and try to understand the principles involved. And also: Pay attention to what doesn’t work and stop doing it. Nathaniel Branden
• The formula is simple—do more of what is working, do less of what isn’t, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results. Jack Canfield
• Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury
• Experimentation

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Consciously be aware of your gifts

• We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
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Become consciously aware of what brings you happiness and peace

• Focused attention seems to be a rare resource today. It is also the most important aspect for meaning in our lives. Spend more time looking closely at what brings you peace and happiness. And start there – again and again. And again.  Cat Li Stevenson
• Happiness,  Inner peace

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• I am a Passionate Observer of Life. Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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