138 quotes
“Know thyself.”
— Socrates
“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.”
— Rick Hanson
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
— Harriet Tubman
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
— William Blake
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
— Mooji
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder
“If your emotional abilities are not in hand if you do not have self-awareness then no matter how smart you are you are not going to get very far”
— Daniel Goleman
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Meditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Apprehend God in all things for God is in all things.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
— George Washington Carver
“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”
— Dipa Ma
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Awareness is the nature of your being it is not something that comes and goes”
— Rupert Spira
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
— Abraham Maslow
“If your emotional abilities are not in hand if you do not have self-awareness your self-management will suffer”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”
— Joseph Goldstein
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here the inferno where we live every day”
— Italo Calvino
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
“Wherever you go there you are”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
— Laozi
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition man is the only being who knows he is alone”
— Octavio Paz
“The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe to ask the right questions and to elevate the mind”
— Marina Abramovic
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant.”
— Pema Chodron
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
— Lao Tzu
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“You are the unchanging awareness in which all activity takes place”
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Your power is in your thoughts so stay awake. In other words remember to remember.”
— Rhonda Byrne
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my life. Creativity is wakefulness.”
— Zadie Smith
“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things in the web of life”
— Thomas Merton
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
— Unknown
“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”
— Solomon
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
“The trouble is that once you see it you cannot unsee it and once you have seen it keeping quiet saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out”
— Arundhati Roy
“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you it is strictly speaking no longer the ego”
“Positive emotions broaden our awareness and open us up to new possibilities.”
— Barbara Fredrickson
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
— Plato
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life in my family and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
— Rosa Luxemburg
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice”
— R.D. Laing
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— Carl Jung
— Jan Chozen Bays
“The only thing rising faster than sea levels is awareness”
— Naomi Klein
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“We are always falling in love or quarreling rejecting something or clinging to it”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“Learning is the process of realizing how much you don't know.”
— John Locke
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“In life there are things that make your heart beat faster in delight”
— Sei Shonagon
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware”
— Henry Miller
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.”
“Its being here now that is important. There is no past and there is no future.”
— George Harrison
“The separate self is an intermittent experience awareness is the ever-present background”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“Remember, it is being aware of thoughts, not getting rid of them, that is the point.”
— Andy Puddicombe
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beings”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy”
— Anne Frank
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“The little things they are not little”
“When we become aware of our humility, we have already lost it. Thus we may be most truly grateful when we are not aware that we are grateful.”
“I was only a young girl when I realized the grave injustice of taking peoples land and culture”
— Zitkala-Sa
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here”
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“Awareness is like the sky thoughts and feelings come and go like clouds”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“The general population doesnt know whats happening, and it doesnt even know that it doesnt know.”
— Noam Chomsky
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The only thing I am certain of is that I know nothing.”
“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves and kindness begins with awareness”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
— John Lubbock
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here.”
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
— William Shakespeare
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“Knowledge is discovering what you know and what you don't know.”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this is not nice, I do not know what is.”
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our freedom.”
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