Quotes About Awareness

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.

Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.

Politics is about everything we do from the moment we get up in the morning to the minute we go to bed at night. It's something everybody and anybody can be involved in.

If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don't think they even know what the word is.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

I've been aware of my own mortality since I was 12.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Education is the most important thing you can have.