Quotes About Awareness

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.