Quotes About Awareness

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

You can tell all you need to know about someone from the way cows are around him.

You know how that feels?

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you.

Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong," she recited. "Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

The most important thing," he said, "is to be present in the face of fear.

Mindfulness isn't necessarily about awakening within. Awakening wisdom teaches me how my exterior and interior life are not separate. What happens in the world is happening within me, and vice versa.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat." Being fully "present" in each moment is a discipline that can save our sanity.

You cannot know where you are going unless you know where you are coming from.

Seek reality and base all your decisions and actions upon it.

people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.

If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you'd stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you'd likely stop talking.

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.

Toying with time will lead you down a rabbit hole with no way out. Believing this lie does its harm by convincing you to do things you shouldn't and stop doing things you should. Middle mismanagement can be one of the most destructive things you ever do. You can't ignore the inevitability of time.

Acknowledge that your life actually has multiple areas and that each requires a minimum of attention for you to feel that you "have a life." Drop any one and you will feel the effects. This requires constant awareness. You must never go too long or too far without counterbalancing them so that they are all active areas of your life. Your personal life requires it.

The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.

Life is too short to chase unicorns. It's too precious to rely on a rabbit's foot. The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they've usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an astounding flood of "common sense" that turns out to be nonsense.

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life. If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." —Bob Hawke

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that." —Erich Heller

Your environment is simply who you see and what you experience every day. The people are familiar, the places comfortable. You trust these elements of your environment and quite possibly even take them for granted. But be aware. Anyone and anything at any time can become a thief, diverting your attention away from your most important work and stealing your productivity right from under your nose. For