Quotes About Awareness

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.