Quotes About Awareness

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

I always know where the scissors are.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?