Quotes About Awareness

This discipline helps us work on mindfulness—living in the present as opposed to the past or future—which studies consistently find leads us to be happier people. But it also helps us to make the decisions that truly expose our best selves.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things. Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh explains this in his book The Miracle of Mindfulness:

Finally, obsessing over the future squanders the present.

Why? If we are thinking about the past or future, "we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.

the average American considers the beginning of "old age" to be six years after the average person dies. We avoid thinking realistically about the length of our lives and our time left, lulling us into the false belief that we have all the time in the world.

Only to be mindful, therefore, is to be truly alive.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump's average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more.

How many Thanksgivings do you have left?

From my earliest days, I learned of the evils of objectifying others.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

The term 'violence' refers to an event or an action that 'violates' some aspect of human life. Violence, then, is always connected with suffering. But not all suffering involves the quality of violence. The pain of guilt that a person feels may be so deep and may spread through his awareness so gradually that not fore of 'violence' is detectable.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

It's better to always be aware of the qualities of Ole Gunnar Solskaer.

You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

I consider that part of my job as a pro: to know who you're up against and how the attacking players play, what kind of characteristics they have, their qualities, how they move, their preferred foot.

One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.