Charlie Awbery > Quotes

“Spacious clarity, found in meditation, gives rise to awareness of the patterns of pressure and expectation in interactive situations. Seeing them clearly, you are no longer bound by them. Instead, you find the courage to speak in tune with your perception of how things are.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“The self-confidence developed in therapy is based in a realistic, factual appraisal of your increasing ability to deal with challenging emotions and interactions. The confidence developed in opening awareness is recognition of the vivid open space that surrounds and underlies all emotions and interactions. It is unconditional, not reliant on facts or evidence reflecting your self, relationships, or life. It is confidence in being, not in your circumstances.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“Meditation frees up thinking so that, rather than running along inert habitual lines, spontaneous, unexpected creative insights occur.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“The way you think and talk about meditation will affect the results you get. Try using the phrase “find awareness in…” rather than “focus on…”,”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“When you provide a space bigger than your emotions in which they are free to move, they cannot control you. Attending to the space in which they occur, rather than perpetuating the patterns that constrain them, it becomes evident that you contain—you are larger than—your emotions. You have them; they do not have you.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“Consider your attention like a closed hand that has grabbed onto and contracted around an object.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

“One of the most effective ways to transition to opening awareness from other meditation systems is to fully embrace a life-affirming, non-renunciative view.”
― Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity