Quotes about Awareness

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.