Quotes About Awareness

Our mistake wasn't that we didn't do what we could have done, rather that we didn't know that we should have done it earlier.

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.

our eagerness to understand people's desire to be slaves has had us glued to our smartphones and computer screens seeking answers, and the process has become so time consuming and so fulfilling that we have felt as if things are not actually happening to us.

Now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

It's always Now.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car.

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

What might happen when people denied education because of their gender, their religion, their race, or their social strata learn about the world, about science, about history, about how other people live? What will happen to the way things are if the thinking of a lot of people changes?

I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.

Looking back, we were poor, but no one told us.

Hemingway said that the best thing a writer can have is "a built-in shit detector.

You've got your answer then, haven't you?' Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.

James Baldwin's words haunt: "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." Are we a nation of monsters?

To live and move about the world without questioning how the world has shaped and is shaping you is, in a way, to betray the gift of life itself, Baldwin argued.