Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

One must lose one's life to find it.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.