Quotes About Awareness

When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.

Life is beautiful. Look around. Don't take anything for granted.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

Awareness signs the warrant for suffering.

before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.

Mr Pugh: Pigs can't read, my dear. Mrs Pugh: I know one who can.

Dylan talked copiously then stopped, 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think its me.

When we begin to genuinely appreciate the illusory, dreamlike nature of our waking experiences, we are starting to mix those appearances with the appearances of our nighttime dreams. We are bringing those two states closer together.

Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.

In the beginning, our one-pointed focus on our goal of personal freedom is necessary; however, if carried to extremes, it can also lead to a kind of narrow-mindedness and sense of claustrophobia.

For any kind of mindfulness training to work for you, you have to be present in your life. That includes being present—mind and body—when your emotions are stirring things up. That's when you want to be clear about your thoughts, and clear about what you see, hear, and feel. That's when mindfulness really becomes your greatest friend.

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.

We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.

Most of the time we are trying to make the good things last, or we are thinking about replacing them with something even better in the future, or we are sunk in the past, reminiscing about happier times. Ironically, we never truly appreciated the experience for which we are nostalgic because we were too busy clinging to our hopes and fears at the time.

It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.

Every time we make an assumption—for example, that we understand our spouse—we are exposing ourselves like an open wound. Assumptions and expectations that rely on someone or something else leave us vulnerable. At any moment, one of the uncountable possible contradictions can pop up and sprinkle salt on our assumptions, causing us to flinch and howl.