Quotes About Awareness

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

APPRECIATION IN ANY FORM AT ANY TIME BRIGHTENS ANYONE'S EXISTENCE.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.