Quotes About Awareness

Helpful hints: Be aware. All you can control is your attention. Question your status quo. Modify, don't validate. Learning is converting stress into comfort. Incorporate falling practice into every climbing day. Find little ways to engage. BERP often! When you rest, rest; when you climb, climb. Practice is an end in itself. Enjoy the journey.

To be here or somewhere else, to live or not to live, to look out through a broken window or not to look.

We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.

Every honest attempt to discover the truth and depict things faithfully is a struggle against one's own subjectivity and partiality, one's individual and class interests; one can seek to become aware of these as a source of error, while realizing that they can never be finally excluded.

I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing," said Toad.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, thyroid problem?

Qui s'endort avec le cul qui gratte se réveil avec le doigt qui pue.

?nsan mutlulu?un hep sonradan fark?na var?r. Ah, o zaman ne mutluymu?um, ke?ke daha dikkatli olsaym???m.

If we ignore pain long enough, it will eventually go away. But by the time it does, we may have caused lasting and permanent damage, and a new pain will enter our lives, which is often worse than the first.

Pain is important. It acts as a warning. It tells us that we are damaging ourselves in some way.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

From whatever point he starts, whatever path he follows, modern man comes to the same conclusion: behind its visible appearances, life hides a meaning that is eternally inaccessible to penetration by the spirit that seeks for its discovery, caught in the dilemma of being aware that it is impossible to find it, and yet also impossible to renounce the hopeless quest.

I think if our students, if our high school students — if all of the American citizens — knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in today

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration — and get between you and it.

The Camino is a form of extended walking meditation, a practice in many traditions. "Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet," explains the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.[14] "We don't need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.

The transcendent effects of a pilgrimage appear after a few days, in waves of perception

The focus must be on the walk that is life with its string of present moments.