Quotes About Awareness

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

a moment in the past, like a bone in the throat, that needed his attention.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Yoga is a tool for realigning our awareness with the divine, creating a state of oneness that is our true nature.

The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

Closing the asylums has not brought us any closer to working out how we should respond to mental illness. We still prefer to think that out of mind should mean out of sight.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end

I walk into what light there is — Mark Strand, from "Another Place," Collected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2014)

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

She insisted that she had not gone back to the land. She would say that we all live on the land, whether we know it or not.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.

Right there—listening and complimenting—you're ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.

You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful

that if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day, no matter how flawed.

if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day,

live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's