Quotes About Awareness

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...

rather than God being "out there" in the heights, God is known in the depths of personal experience.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

1. Consider all weapons to be loaded at all times. 2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not want to put a bullet through. 3. Never put your finger on the trigger unless you want to shoot. 4. Know your target and what's behind it.

One day I'm not gonna be here. Then it's gonna be you two, by yourselves, and I want you to understand how rough and unfair this world is. I want you both prepared for whatever the hell might come your way.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case.

Alzheimer's was far more terrifying than death.

So why can't we see people?" "Because they're there, and we're here. They're creating the sound, we're living in the echo. There are drivers in the cars and clerks in the stores and ladies walking dogs. Living people, doing their thing. Totally unaware that at the same moment, us dead folks are walking through an echo of their world." Brody tried to picture it, an overlap of the real and the invisible.