Awareness Quotes

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

We must look a long time before we can see

Wake up and ponder the future

I like to know what's happening.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

We usually don't look. We overlook.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.