Quotes About Awareness

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.