Quotes About Awareness

The present generation doesn't know what a milestone is. They go so fast nowadays that miles mean nothing.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time.

His point: you don't have to travel the world to see the ways we mistreat one another; it's as close as the street outside our windows.

You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do—they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying

Every year pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people in America—it's the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally," writes Kabat-Zinn. "This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality.

Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking "How are you feeling?" and "Do you want me to ask how you're feeling?

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time." Mom

Really, whenever you read something wonderful, it changes your life, even if you aren't aware of it.

We found ourselves discussing the three kinds of fateful choices that exist in the two books: the ones characters make knowing that they can never be undone; the ones they make thinking they can but learn they can't; and the ones they make thinking they can't and only later come to understand, when it's too late, when "nothing can be undone," that they could have.

Not feeling well is no excuse for forgetting that there are other people in the world.

The latter therapy has its roots in a philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a chair, you need to realize that someone made that chair, and someone sold it, and someone delivered it—and you are the beneficiary of all that. Just because they didn't do it especially for you doesn't mean you aren't blessed to be using it and enjoying it.

I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.

there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.