Quotes About Awareness

All you have to do is take care of your posture and breathing with a kind, considerate, and thoughtful spirit.

Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security.

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today

People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.

Every day is a new life to a wise man.

Wanamaker learned this lesson early, but I personally had to blunder through this old world for a third of a century before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticise themselves for anything no matter how wrong it may be.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what really matters. Flattery is usually an admittance of insensibility, a betrayal of trust. We say things we think we should say, but in reality we aren't thinking at all. What message does flattery send? "You don't matter enough for me to pay you much mind.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves. And those people who think only of themselves, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, longtime president of Columbia University, said, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, said Dr. Butler, no matter how instructed they may be.

Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.

En comparación con lo que deberíamos ser -decía el famoso profesor William James, de la Universidad de Harvard-, sólo estamos despiertos a medias. Sólo empleamos una pequeña parte de nuestros recursos físicos y mentales. En términos generales, el individuo vive así muy dentro de sus límites Posee cualidades de diversas especies que habitualmente no usa.

it is utterly impossible for any human mind, no matter how brilliant, to think of more than one thing at any given time.

El hombre que se puede poner en el lugar de los demás, que puede comprender el funcionamiento de la mente ajena, no tiene por qué preocuparse por el futuro.

No te quejes de la nieve en el techo del vecino cuando también cubre el umbral de tu casa

said: "People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

If we do not understand the significance of our presence, we can never give anyone the present of our lives.

most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.