Quotes About Awareness

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

When you open the blinds, open them like you're lifting the veil of enlightenment. Or just open the blinds. See?

Occasionally we go on vacation to a place where there are no newspapers and no television. And when we return we find the world hasn't ended. We realize that even though following the news may be essential to making a living, it has little to do with living a spiritual life.

SEAVER: "What time is it?" BERRA: "You mean now?" No matter what time of day we check our watch, the only time is now. We may be running behind schedule, late for an appointment, or stuck in traffic, but we can't be anywhere other than where we are; our place in time cannot change. All we can do is make the best of each moment we're given. "This day will not come again," says the zen master Takuan. "Each minute is worth a priceless gem.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

If you don't get it, you don't get it." ... "If you don't get it, you may yet.

I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost. There are some around me who can sense it; the adults repeat it constantly but I don't listen. Their words roll over me but don't stick. Like water off the feathers of a duck's back. I'm an idiot. An easygoing idiot.

Have you noticed how the most beautiful landscapes lose their brilliance as soon as our thoughts prevent us from seeing them properly?

No sé que nunca volveré a tener diecisiete años, no sé que la juventud vuela, que apenas dura un instante, que desaparece enseguida y cuando te das cuenta ya es demasiado tarde, ya se ha terminado, se ha volatilizado, la has perdido

I want to experience only the moment, not the looming certainty that I will lose that moment, not the certain awareness that, ultimately, this moment must slip from present to past, only the joy of the moment and the graze of memory.

I don't know then that one day I won't be seventeen. I don't know that youth doesn't last, that it's only a moment, and then it disappears and by the time you finally realize it, it's too late. It's finished, vanished, lost.

Je comprends alors qu'on ne voit pas les choses quand on regarde les êtres.

A dozen incidents of this kind made everyone realise that the monsters had never left them, that they had simply fallen asleep for a while, and that now their slumbers were over.

Amaba el tiempo hasta el punto de quedarse viéndolo pasar

Vä?šina ?udí nemá potuchy o svojich temných stránkach, a predsa ich majú vÅ¡etci. Odhalia ich ?asto okolnosti, vojny, hladomor, revolúcie, genocídy. A ke? sa ?udia po prvý raz v skrytosti svojho vedomia nad nimi zamyslia, z?aknú sa ich a nasko?ia im zimomriavky.

Aunque sepa que un día morirá, el hombre no puede vivir continuamente en un mundo que no le devuelve más que la conciencia de su propia muerte, un mundo saturado de muerte y que sólo ha sido ideado para eso.

Don't forget, Brodeck: it's ignorance that always triumphs, not knowledge.

Mon cher et vieux maître Limmat, que faisiez-vous donc là, derrière cette table pareille à celle d'un tribunal ? Vous aussi vous saviez donc ?

Les pieds encore dans leur rêve, ils se savaient pendus tête en bas.