Quotes About Awareness

At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.

You have a mind? —Yes. Well, why not use it? Isn't that all you want—for it to do its job?

He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.

Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

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

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it. You must now at last perceive of what universe you are a part, and from what administrator of the universe your existence flows, and that a limit of time is fixed for you, which if you do not use for clearing away the clouds from your mind, it will go and you will go, and it will never return.

Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist

Learn to ask of all actions, "Why are they doing that?" Starting with your own.

The things which are ex­ternal to my mind have no re­la­tion at all to my mind.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it.

29. Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that which he lives, is no other, than that which at every instant he parts with.

The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?

So we must have a sense of urgency, not only for the ever closer approach of death, but also because our comprehension of the world and our ability to pay proper attention will fade before we do.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself.

Learn to ask of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.

Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.

Do not dream of possession of what you do not have: rather reflect on the greatest blessings in what you do have, and on their account remind yourself how much they would have been missed if they were not there.