Quotes About Awareness

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

When you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

Not the past, not the future, life is now.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.