Quotes about Awareness

Your life is always speaking to (for) you.

The true power of staying in the now means that you resist projecting what might happen in the future or lamenting past mistakes.

Life is the pitcher and we're missing the pitcher when we're so focused on that one element. It doesn't matter if your glass is half-full or half-empty if there's a pitcher of water right next to you. And we need to look at the full picture to see the full pitcher.

What you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.