Quotes About Awareness

Don't switch off. Stay engaged. Resist distraction. Concentrate. Focus. Be present. Smell the coffee. Taste the food. Listen to the speech. Keep that Latin accurate. Stop thinking about what's coming next, stop checking the mobile, and relish what's happening now. Seize the day. For all you know, it's the only one you've got. Live in the moment.

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

At a bus station: TOILETS ONLY FOR DISABLED PREGNANT CHILDREN

Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: "as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again "I am a woman," because we exist in an epoch still so ancient and ignorant and slow that there is still always the danger of gynocide.

I did not even know this existed...this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams....And now: here I am.

And it is characteristic of the devil to be recognized too late.

We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.

These days I am in a super-acute, a hyped-up life. It never goes to sleep. And yet all the events of this hyped-up life seem to be cut from the hyperdream. All of them turn up accompanied by a voice that murmurs to my heart "it's not going to last.

Every hour or so, he looked at his watch, and it would be three or four minutes later.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Practice empathy. Try to see things from other people's points of view.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking.

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

It may prove useful in physics," he wrote, "to consider events in all of time at once and to imagine that we at each instant are only aware of those that lie behind us.

Survival of all or none. One raindrop raises the sea. Weapons are enemies even to their owners. Give more, take less. Others first, self last. Observe, listen, and learn. Do one thing at a time. Sing every day. Exercise imagination. Eat to live, don't live to eat.

If white Americans could look at the terror they inflicted on their own black population—slavery, segregation, and lynching—then they might be able to understand what is coming at them from others.