Quotes About Awareness

our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.

Until recent centuries, almost all human beings walked or ran a considerable distance every day, and this has perhaps been the primary time for meditation. To awaken our sense of who we are, it's important, whenever possible, to get out and walk every day—and also to turn that simple act of ambulation into the sublime experience of walking meditation.

Our thinking minds are so full of beliefs about how things "should be" rather than how things "are" that we refuse to accept reality as it is. We

Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our

It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.

Awareness is the key to surviving on a motorcycle. Always be aware of your surroundings, and actively scan your surroundings at all times.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the color green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only a part of a human. I can't do anything about that. But I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see it or feel it.