Quotes About Awareness

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?