Quotes About Awareness

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

I still find each day too short.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

Life is the art of being well deceived.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Every moment of our life is important.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

While we wait for life, life passes