Quotes About Awareness

Two blondes walk into a building. You'd think at least one of them would have seen it.

Silence equals death.

You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.

The 4:8 Principle is a book about thinking differently, about thinking in a way that maximizes your potential for joy. Because most people are oblivious to their habitual way of thinking, they experience less joy and a less-abundant life

You'd never invite a thief into your house. So why would you allow thoughts that steal your joy to make themselves at home in your mind?

where you are or where you've been. Remember,

No area of your life is untouched by your thoughts.

What Is Reality?

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Never take anyone or anything for granite!

You only fear what you don't know, if you knew everything you would have no fear.

Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.

So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy.

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what's there. . . .

We rarely touch this. We rarely contact this simple moment. So used to constant input and excitement, we lack fine-tuning into all the subtleties of this instant, the ability to register a quiet aliveness without the stirring of expectation.

In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future, one doesn't hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and heartbeat this instant.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long.

Be careful what you practice--you may get really good at the wrong thing.

Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it.

Everything we put our attention on becomes more, bigger, and brighter.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.