Quotes About Awareness

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

God is always at work around you.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving