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Quotes About Awareness

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
~ Adyashanti
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind
~ Matthieu Ricard
We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.
~ James Lovelock
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
~ Samuel Johnson
Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.
~ Unknown
Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
~ Sofia Milos
The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.
~ Daniel Levitin
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.
~ John Steinbeck
There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?
~ Deepak Chopra
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
~ Bill Murray
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
~ Deepak Chopra
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.
~ Erin Gruwell
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
~ Mark Twain
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
~ John Dewey
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
~ Aeschylus
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
~ Anya Seton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
~ Thomas Merton
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
~ George H. W. Bush
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
~ William Gibson
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius