Quotes About Awareness

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

James MacGregor Burns wrote that "the Leader's fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfully, that they can be moved to purposeful action.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.

we don't talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about

Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

Understanding layers of limits and keeping an eye on the next upcoming limiting factor is not a recipe for perpetual growth, however. For any physical entity in a finite environment, perpetual growth is impossible. Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.

Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

What these first central precepts the yamas and niyamas ask us to remember is that the techniques and forms are not goals in themselves but vehicles for getting to the essence of who we are.

we" are not only breathing this life, "it" is also breathing us.

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

we are practicing to live, not living to practice,

Very simply, we set aside time and a quiet place to engage in inquiries that will remind us of who we really are. We do this practice as often as necessary for this understanding to become an implicit part of our being. For most of us this means practicing from the first breath to the last.

Yoga is thus not something we can make happen but something that happens to us. But it does not happen by accident.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. It is a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful.

The happier people become the more I noticed my sadness.

How quickly the brain, the body adapts to this new presence in life; how quickly the brain, the body develops a sense for it, for her--the ebb and flow of Addie's nearness and farness, the awareness of her location, her safety, her comfort and well-being.