Quotes About Awareness

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.

What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.

The One who created the world pervades it. Do not look for the True One far away. Recognize the Word [the Divine Spirit] dwelling in every heart.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day.

Don't worry about the thing on the stairs. If you don't want to be "woke," it's terribly cozy to sleep on peacefully while vast tracts of American horror culture allow you to float in Amity's warm and woozy dream.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

It is said that in breathing man recapitulates the rhythm of the universe. When the mind is fastened to the rhythm of breathing, it tends to become absorbed and calm. Whether on or off the court, I know of no better way to begin to deal with anxiety than to place the mind on one's breathing process.

The ability to focus the mind is the ability to not let it run away with you. It does not mean not to think—but to be the one who directs your own thinking.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

Fighting the mind does not work. What works best is learning to focus it.

In a society that has become so oriented toward language as a way of representing truth, it is very possible to lose touch with your ability to feel and with it your ability to "remember" the shots themselves.

But the basic strategy for increasing feel is consciously to switch games from a game of results to one of awareness. Usually, it is overconcern with results that leads to overcontrol and decreased feel, so change your goal to increasing awareness. Pick any awareness technique and increase your focus on whatever feel is there. Don't judge it as good or bad; merely observe it. Feel will pick up immediately, and improved results will follow as a matter of course.

It's difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.