Quotes About Awareness

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.

Miles away, the red taillights of semi-trucks were moving along the interstate, and Dustin was suddenly aware that there were people inside them, that they were traveling to distant places and they would never know that he and Rusty were watching them. It made him feel a strange, tingling kind of ache.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

I gave my clothes away. How could I think about clothes when the poor people of Florida don't even have a place to live?

Never kill yourself, son. You might miss something. Like the point.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

you have to 'lose your mind' before you can come to your senses.

Your business is not to 'get somewhere' — it is to be here.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

There are no ordinary moments!

Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

Whatever our circumstances, everything can feel so simple, so beautiful, and so right when we no longer pay attention to the mind's incessant chatter.

When the mind is creating troubles, it's time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.

You now see everything through a veil of associations about things, projected over a direct, simple awareness. You've 'seen it all before'; it's like watching a movie for the twentieth time. You see only memories of things, so you become bored. Boredom, you see, is fundamental nonawareness of life; boredom is awareness, trapped in the mind. You'll have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.

We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human. —Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential.