Quotes About Awareness

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

The more you think, the more time you have.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.