Quotes About Awareness

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Power of Myth

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." —J. Krishnamurti

Show up in every moment like you're meant to be there, because your energy precedes anything you could possibly say." Marie Forleo

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

the goal is to connect with your own self, your own soul.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca

To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious."—Thomas Edison

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue." —Thomas L. Friedman

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."—Albert Einstein

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? I would not have a billboard, and I would take down every billboard that everybody else has put up.

Qué tal si me relajo? Por una vez, haré el mismo trayecto en bici sin ir a paso de tortuga, pero a la mitad de mi ritmo habitual". Monté en la bici y fue agradable. »Hice el mismo recorrido, y noté que me erguía, y que miraba más a mi alrededor. Contemplé el océano, y vi que había delfines saltando en el mar, y llegué hasta Marina

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place.

I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pectoral muscles when I do my bench press. I'm really inside, and it's like I gain a form of meditation, because you have no chance of thinking or concentrating on anything else at that time.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

Lo primero que se me viene a la cabeza es la "humildad".

Wait But Why? [written by Tim Urban] They have a chart of the weeks of your life. I have a wall chart of boxes representing every year of my life: ten years across and nine rows down. Then things are plotted on it, like average life expectancy in the U.S. I always thought it was kind of cool, because it puts time into a visual format, and I'm a visual person.

many forms of meditation in the world. Like when I study and work really hard, where it takes the ultimate amount of concentration, I can only do it for 45 minutes, maybe an hour. "I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the

Así que me he vuelto, creo, mucho más consciente con los años de la naturaleza problemática de un exceso de competitividad.

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

Algunos recursos resultan obvios a primera vista, mientras

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."—George S. Patton

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

If you don't appreciate what you have now, you'll never appreciate what you get later.