Quotes about Awareness
By taking a few moments to "die on purpose" to the rush of time while you are still living, you free yourself to have time for the present. By "dying" now in this way, you actually become more alive now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
things already are perfect, perfectly what they are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
- Khalil Gibran
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.
- Jane Goodall
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
- Seth Godin
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
- Pema Chodron
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
- Ava DuVernay
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
- Victor Hugo