Quotes about Awareness

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.

My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?

Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time. Whatsoever is besides either is already past, or uncertain.

Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.

Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present—and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits. And if your mind tries to claim that it can't hold out against that . . . well, then, heap shame upon it.

And as for thy life, consider what it is; a wind; not one constant wind neither, but every moment of an hour let out, and sucked in again.

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

How the mind can participate in the sensations of the body and yet maintain its serenity, and focus on its own well-being.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing.