Quotes About Awareness

See into life, don't just look at it

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.

The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.