Quotes About Awareness

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether.

What is born will die What has been gathered will be dispersed What has been accumulated will be exhausted What has been built up will collapse And what has been high will be brought low. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.

811. Focus on the here and now, forget yesterday's behavior, and don't predict tomorrow's. Every day with ADHD is different from the next.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Just when you think you have everything figured out, you discover you know nothing at all.

We can't change the world overnight, Reesa. But we begin by changing the way we choose to live in it.

Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience.

I got the impression there was somebody home behind each set of eyes, and the effect was surreal.

They know when another dolphin—or a human being—is pregnant or sick or injured.

We almost never know what we know until after we know it.

She lets it slip because she does. Don't ask her Why now? Ask her Why not every moment up to now?

You were supposed to stay with her in that moment, with tenacity and honesty. And that's what you did." "I wasn't honest. I lied!" "And you're aware of the lie, and aware of the reason you told it. You were there in that circumstance, Sarah. More then Joelle.

Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she's a ghost.

Even before today she felt the daily deluge of alarming news related to Russian hackers, nuclear-armed North Koreans, police officers shooting innocent Black children, deranged gunmen popping up like whack-a-moles ambushing schools and holiday parties and church gatherings, people being violently hauled off airplanes, terrorists in Barcelona, melting ice caps, and dying polar bears, and she is on alert, and terrified, about absolutely everything.

How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently

Hopefully with my so-called celebrity, I can help open more people's eyes to Epilepsy disorders.

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

Sometimes I don't even be realizing what's really going on. So sometimes you just gotta take a step back and soak it all in.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

My father raised us like... we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, 'Oh that fat person, or this person,' he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren't allowed to look at people like that.

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.

I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.