Quotes About Awareness

Intention, Attention, No Tension.

To become happier we have to snap out of the trance that our happiness rests in "more and better" which we'll get "someday." No matter what we have, Happy for No Reason exists only now, not later. The

Immaginare non è rifiutare quel che c'è per scappare da un'altra parte, è invece saper leggere, vedere, ascoltare, riconoscere, paesaggire, dare un nome e un peso a quello che c'è per capire meglio cosa manca e cosa si rischia.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Confine yourself to the present.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: What is his point of reference here? But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Your life is what your thoughts make it

Live every day as if they last.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.