Quotes About Awareness

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.