Quotes About Awareness

Ogni volta che vedi uno compiere un'azione, se ti è possibile, prendi l'abitudine di chiederti: «A che mira costui facendo questo?». E comincia proprio da te, esaminando per primo te stesso.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. —Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.

No imagines las cosas ausentes como ya presentes antes bien, selecciona entre las presentes las mas favorables y a la vista de esto, recuerda como las buscarías si no estuvieran presentes. Pero al mismo tiempo ten precaución, no vaya a ser que por complacerte hasta tal punto en su disfrute te habitúes a sobrestimarlas, de manera que, si alguna vez no estuvieran presentes, pudieras sentirte inquieto

Each morning, remind yourself that this day may be your last. And when you tuck your children into bed at night, remember that they, too, are mortals who someday will die.

No imagines las cosas ausentes como ya presentes antes bien, selecciona entre las presentes las más favorables y a la vista de esto, recuerda como las buscarías si no estuvieran presentes. Pero al mismo tiempo ten precaución, no vaya a ser que por complacerte hasta tal punto en su disfrute te habitúes a sobrestimarlas, de manera que, si alguna vez no estuvieran presentes, pudieras sentirte inquieto

What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things only. For that is proper to sore eyes. So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for to grind.

Borra la imaginación detén el impulso de marioneta. Circunscríbete al momento presente. Comprende lo que te sucede a ti o a otro. Divide y separa el objeto dado en su aspecto causal y material. Piensa en tu hora postrera la falta cometida por aquel dejala allí donde se origino

Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done

El que no sabe qué es el universo no sabe dónde está. El que no sabe para qué ha crecido no sabe quién es. El que deja sin resolver una sola de estas cosas no podría decir ni qué es el universo ni para qué ha crecido. Entonces, ¿cómo te parece que es quien va detrás del ruido de gente que aplaude sin saber ni dónde está ni quién es?

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

Of everything thou must consider from whence it came, of what things it doth consist, and into what it will be changed: what will be the nature of it, or what it will be like unto when it is changed; and that it can suffer no hurt by this change.

2.12 Es propio de la facultad inteligente fijarse en cómo desaparece rápidamente todo, las propias personas en el universo, los recuerdos de esas personas en el tiempo; en

Now a man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also, unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after. Try

frenar durante su mandato las aclamaciones y cualquier adulación; ser vigilante de las necesidades del imperio

not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily

time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

El arte de vivir es más parecido al de la lucha que al de la danza en la medida que, ante lo que le cae a uno de improviso, hay que mantenerse preparado y sin caerse.

Forget the Future

It is no excuse to plead that he knew nothing about the atrocities done in his name: it was his duty to know, and if he did not he would have been the first to confess that he had failed in his duty.

neither have I ever seen mine own soul, and yet I respect and honour it.

If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there's still time.

Three things there be in all, which thou doest consist of; thy body, thy life, and thy mind.