Quotes About Awareness

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. Mom,guess what ? she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. what? she said ,tending to the pots. guess what? the child repeated ,waving the drawings. what? the mother said , tending to the plates. Mom, you're not listening sweetie,yes I am Mom the child said you're not listening with your EYES

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out.

Consider the word "time." We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.