Quotes About Awareness

You'll soon discover that although you feel time-poor, you are actually moment-rich.

come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

Pure awareness transcends thinking.

Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a "problem" when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as "solving" a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to "shift gear" into "Being" mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

For maybe the first time in years, you're noticing in real time how the mind creates tension in the body. Soon you'll notice that the body also creates tension in the mind in a self-sustaining loop.

are you driven by the daily routines that force you to live in your head rather than in your life?

Meditation is a simple practice that gains its power from repetition. It's only through this that we can become aware of the repeating patterns in our own minds.

To be mindful means to be back in touch with your senses, so you can see, hear, touch, smell and taste things

The breath breathes itself. If it was up to us to remember to breathe, we'd have forgotten long ago. So tuning into the breath can be an important antidote to the natural tendency toward believing that we have to be in control.

Meditation is not a religion. Mindfulness is simply a method of mental training.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

When you're used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on a dead run, the best hiding places if bullets start to fly...

A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Maailman kuvaa katselet, et maailmaa.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities.

I know that I, like every living thing, will have to die some day, but my hands, my feet and my guts still don't know it, which is why death seems so unreal.