Quotes About Awareness

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.