Quotes About Awareness

There is this beautiful feeling you receive when you realise that there is only a now. You become moved, to know that there is no past or future but only an eternal now. There is no anxiety no attachment just one breath.

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present.

Some people take sadness for granted, until it happens to them.

How much you achieve in life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of life.

It is better to know than having that what if thought dwelling in your mind.

Always recognize that there is a difference between living and being alive

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.

Life becomes more meaningful when we realize the simple fact that we'll never get the same moment twice.

For a simple and happy life. We don't have to control our thoughts, we just have to stop letting them control our life.

You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

It's not important what we think, or what we do or what we believe in: each of us will die one day. Better to do as the old Yaqui Indians did: regard death as an advisor. Always ask: 'Since I'm going to die, what should I be doing now?'

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available, more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Life is a gift. Wake up everyday and realize that.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

The problems in this world are not to be blamed on anyone, but to be blamed on the ignorance of our self-nature.