Quotes About Awareness

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

The original title for The Lion King was King of the Jungle - until someone pointed out that Lions don't actually live in the jungle.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

mind and went

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

my drug was knowing. Knowing what was possible. Knowing how far it could go.

She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn't even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.

Up here, if they found them, they were helpless. People don't look up, she thought. Melissa was sleeping now, but what if she woke and cried?

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

As you become more intimate with your suffering, your heart grows tender.

Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love – or any other experience – must take place in the present.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consist in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive - Allan Watts

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.