Quotes About Awareness

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.