Quotes About Awareness

Give but don't allow yourself to be used. Love but don't allow your heart to be abused. Trust, but don't be naive. Listen to others, but don't lose your voice.

He who does not love at least himself breathes without feeling the breath of the heart.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love...

For every beauty there's an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there's an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there's a heart somewhere to receive it.

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

If you take good care of any disease by eating well, sleeping well, being aware of your health, consciously wanting to be well, not smoking, et cetera, you are doing all the things you should be doing anyway, but somehow having a disease makes them easier to do. A human without a disease is like a ship without a rudder.

Spiritual Principle: Even those who get what they want must ask for what they need.

Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?

Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

willingness or ability to show up fully in our lives and live them as if they really mattered, in the only moment we ever get, which is this one

now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you'll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this.

Gradually, moment by moment, you may have come to realize that although you can't stop the unsettling thoughts from arising in your mind, you can stop what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself. The

We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

See our thoughts as mental events that come and go in the mind like clouds across the sky