Quotes About Awareness

enough. Nothing else really counts at all." Nature

No matter where you go, there you are. —BUCKAROO BANZAI

Anyone with a smartphone and a full email in-box knows that it's easy to be busy while not being aware that we're actually living.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Una gran fuente de sabiduría es la intuición, nuestro conocimiento interior.

Dónde está la vida que hemos perdido viviendo? ¿Dónde está la sabiduría que hemos perdido en el conocimiento? ¿Dónde está el conocimiento que hemos perdido en la información?   T. S. ELIOT

meditation was always a challenge because I was under the impression that I had to "do" meditation. And I didn't have time for another burdensome thing to "do." Fortunately, a friend pointed out one day that we don't "do" meditation; meditation "does" us. That opened the door for me. The only thing to "do" in meditation is nothing. Even writing that I don't have to "do" one more thing makes me relax.

Intuition, not intellect, is the "open sesame" of yourself. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones.

Eighty percent of those she examined were found to have periods of "email apnea.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

The growing number of students who have not only identified the problem of sleep deprivation but are actively taking part in its solution is a key driver of the sleep revolution. This

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together, has written about the cost of constantly documenting—i.e., photographing—our lives. These interruptions, she writes, "make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything." And by so-obsessively documenting our experiences, we never truly have them.

beings. When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear.… If I "try" to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability. —STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH

We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

Humans aren't going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.

In this moment, everything is sacred.

A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put, emotionless and impartial.

Huset der oppe, sa jeg og pekte – er dødens hus, Arnardo.

Magic is not illusion, nor is it the artificial manipulation of unnatural forces. In fact, magic is perfectly natural: it is the use of natural energy with conscious intent and awareness to help attain a better understanding of the world around you and to harmonize yourself with the world's energies.