Quotes About Awareness

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

All I know is that I do not know anything

All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Feelings are your soul's way of communicating. Pain is trying to teach you something, and if you don't listen now, it will speak louder and louder until it is heard.

Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

The words strike like they never did before. Before words were flat. Now I hear them - understand in a new way.

No science fiction or fantasy is going to help me. I live in a too-real world.

Color shouldn't make anybody scared. Is it because slavery happened? Is that why some whites are afraid of black people? I don't know. Wake up, people, I want to tell everyone. Fear, stereotypes about black boys don't make the world better.

I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.