Quotes About Awareness

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

The first two steps of the path: the recognition of the preciousness of human life, which is endowed with liberty and opportunity, and the awareness of the immediacy of death. (p. 79)

When you become aware of your selflessness, you realize that any way you feel yourself to be at any time is just a relational, changing construction. When that happens, you have a huge inner release of compassion. Your inner creativity about your living self is energized, and your infinite life becomes your ongoing work of art. (p. 54)

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

It is amazing how full a life a man can lead without for one moment being alive at all, except sometimes when sleeping.

Things only exist as long as you see them. And we are all of us nothing but the sum of our moods.

Dr. Freud established that only a small part, perhaps one-tenth, of the human mental and emotional organization is conscious. Our main response to this discovery has been to reject the nine-tenths unconscious more completely and more systematically than ever before. The ghost story makes contact with the submerged nine-tenths.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.

Once one thinks like a mountain, the whole world is converted. All things confirm me. Then I sit on dojo cushions that do not move. There is no controller and no one to control.

In realizing all this, we understand how we are just bundles of sense perceptions, with the substance of a dream or a bubble on the surface of the sea. The vanity of the usual kind of self-preoccupation becomes clear, and we are freed from selfish concerns in our enjoyment of the universe as it is, and of our own previously unsuspected depths.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

Right thinking comes from being aware of the truth or the reality of any situation.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Always remember; wherever you go; there you are!

See the world!! Gain perspective!! Appreciate Life!!

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?