Quotes About Awareness

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.