Quotes About Awareness

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

Look both ways before entering the insanity.

Fish should smell like the tide. Once they smell like fish, it's too late.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind be quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the fifty thousand thoughts the average person thinks every day. And most of those thoughts are automatic mental responses we've developed from conditioning that fill us with anxiety and fear. They are nothing more than habits, and 99 percent of the thoughts you have in a day are the same ones you had the day before.

Meditation is not only sitting still like a Buddha-figure, nor is it thinking about something, for the Upanishads say that the stars, the trees, the rivers, and the mountains are meditating — unconsciously. Conscious meditation is a knack, and as an exercise it is a way of learning that Enlightenment comes to pass in us as much when we are doing nothing to produce it as when we are in the midst of activity.

Don't just do something — sit there!

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul, and the language of our spirit...

If recollecting were forgetting Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot!...

When Memory rings her bell, let all the thoughts run in.

Indeed, let us not forget, But also let us not dwell.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

May your search through Nature lead you to yourself.

Every man who departs from nature is courting trouble.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

You can't exist with nature without patience because everything in nature happens with such an easy, flowing manner. You get out of step, and you miss it. It's gone.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

MENstrual cramps, MENtal breakdowns, MENopause — ever notice that many of women's problems begin with MEN?

You don't need a camera all the time — the soul, heart, eyes, spirit, and all your other senses capture moments beautifully too.