Quotes About Awareness

Replace a complaint thought with one of gratitude or compassion.

Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.

People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world.

yogis measure their lives in breaths, not years. Deep breathing is what keeps those breaths going.

Now, every day when I wake up I am grateful. I have to be. And I have to count the things that are abundant in my life. Literally count them. If I don't they will begin to disappear. I've watched them disappear before. I don't want it to happen again. In

All you have to do is stay in the present. When you catch yourself upset about the past or worried about the future, say to yourself, "Ah, I'm time traveling," then STOP. That's what meditation is.

Some people say, "Oh! You have to meditate!" You have to sit in the lotus position! Blah blah blah. No, you don't. All you have to do is stay in the present. When you catch yourself upset about the past or worried about the future, say to yourself, "Ah, I'm time traveling," then STOP.

Finally, try to label your thoughts: "future" or "past." If you can do that, you stand a pretty good chance of remaining in the present.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.

Traveling to the past or the future will not help you now.

people perceive you as stupid when you do this. Just keep quiet when someone is talking.

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

Remember to always tune your inner ear so you can listen for (and separate from each other) both the good reason and the real reason when anyone (including yourself) gives you an excuse.

It's important to realize that what's most important is paying attention to the things that are not important.

Your brain is a tool you use. It's not who you are.

Don't be afraid to go silent. Mirror and then have the confidence to go silent.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.