Quotes About Awareness

Coming to our senses involves cultivating an overarching awareness of all our senses, including our own minds, and their limitations, including the temptation when we feel deeply insecure and have a lot of resources, to try to control as rigidly and as tightly as possible all variables in the external world, an impossible and ultimately depleting, intrinsically violent

But if you don't see and accept things as they actually are, you won't know how to act. Or you might be overwhelmed by fear, and that fear might cloud the mind just when you most need clarity and equanimity, or at least, if clarity and equanimity seem elusive, just when you need to be aware of the fear so that you can find ways to work with it rather than have it work against you.

By taking a few moments to "die on purpose" to the rush of time while you are still living, you free yourself to have time for the present. By "dying" now in this way, you actually become more alive now.

things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.

Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?

It involves intentionally doing only one thing at a time and making sure I am here for it.

In fact, the word "Buddha" simply means one who has awakened to his or her own true nature.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.

I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.

On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.