Quotes About Awareness

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.