Awareness Quotes

"Life is just a trip. You don't take anything for granted" "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds" "I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." "In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know" "Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open" "The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety" "What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to" "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it." "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" "A man who won’t listen can’t hear" "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way" "Our dreams can teach us instruct us confuse us sometimes I think they're even in the process of solving problems for us before we are consciously aware of them" "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him" "We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment" "Life only unfolds in moments." "Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally." "When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting." "Mindfulness is not just about meditation, it's about living in a way that respects and engages with reality."