Quotes About Awareness

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

I am deeply reminded that our life's journey is a gift, not a given, and that we can never truly know how long the journey will last. All we can do is decide how it unfolds.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

Don't miss your life.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.