Quotes About Awareness

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.