Quotes About Awareness

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.

As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.

People who have diabetes are dear to my heart, and I want to help them.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.