Quotes About Awareness

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.

Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

To reach our full potential we must first clear the mind and be present in the flow of life current.

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

Life in its highest state is understanding.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

the worst happens when you least expect it