Quotes About Awareness

You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.

Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.

If you don't recognize an ingredient, your body won't either.

Many Buddhist practitioners recite the Five Remembrances daily. The fifth is, "My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.

...words are slippery and tricky creatures, whether they drop from the tip of the tongue or of the pen, and when used in important matters, cannot be too carefully watched or too strongly manacled.

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations...

Life: the insomnia of death.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize... a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of [your child]...

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Don't fake-live. Don't zombie-out as life goes by. Actually live!

In the map of your life, the best place to be is at the intersection of Here and Now. You can't get to any other place you want to be without starting from there.

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.

With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in?

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.