Quotes About Awareness

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.