Quotes About Awareness

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching the news.

And the great thing about this—the liberating thing—is that if our anxiety is in part a product of culture, it can also be something we can change by changing our reaction to that culture. In fact, we don't even need to consciously change at all. The change can happen simply by being aware. When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

Not to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

There is only the present.

Nora tried to act as if every sentence he said wasn't an animal running into the road.

just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

She smiles at me. She clicks the top of her pen. Then clicks it again. Each one is a moment. The first click, the pause between the click, and the second click. The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.

adolescentes", cuyos rasgos principales son una resistencia endeble a la gravedad, un vocabulario compuesto de gruñidos, falta de conciencia espacial, dosis abundantes de masturbación y una voracidad desmedida por comer cereales.

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it- okay, to be a little Buddhist about it- life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.

Problemen met de geestelijke gezondheid zijn geen: Massahysterie. Modegril. Bevlieging. Trend bij sterren. Gevolg van toegenomen bewustzijn van geestelijke problematiek. Gemakkelijk gespreksonderwerp. En: geestelijke problemen zijn niet meer wat ze geweest zijn.

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Depression is kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you

We humans might have evolved too far. The prize for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness

Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

My mind is racing to understand. This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you. The hole is so used to being a hole it doesn't know how to close itself.

O imposibilitate este o posibilitate pe care inca nu ai inteles-o.

There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again. You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love. The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.

not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.