Quotes About Awareness

Perspective. Perspective on "need." Perspective on "hunger." Perspective on "money." Do you feel as if you're living paycheck to paycheck? You may well be, and my point is not to diminish the financial challenges facing many North Americans. But it's all about perspective. It's all about serving with eyes wide open.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Don't just do something. Stand there. —Rochelle Myer

Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power?

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what's present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

The world itself is never overwhelmed or confused—only we are, due to how we are engaged with it. An

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not. The

Rule your mind or it will rule you. —Horace

I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn't be on your mind is irrelevant. It's there, and it's there for a reason.

Handle what has your attention and you'll then discover what really has your attention.

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they're thinking about—at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear.

Most people have lived in a semistressful experience so consistently, for so long, they don't know that it could be quite different—that there is another and more positive place from which to engage with their world.

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

Your Mind Doesn't Have a Mind of Its Own At least a portion of your mind is really kind of stupid, in an interesting way. If it had any innate intelligence and logic, it would remind you of the things you needed to do only when you could do something about them.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that's all that has your attention, you're in flow.

It is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.