Quotes About Awareness

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.