920 quotes found
“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness…True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation.One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of o...”
“Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.”
“One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.”
“It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.”
“Stupid people don’t always know that they’re stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong, they might notice that things don’t usually turn out the way they imagined, but very few of them th...”
“Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.”
“The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.”
“The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.”
“What you don’t know fills the infinite universe. What you do know only fills your mind.”
“Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.”
“The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness—an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the “chance coincidences”—strange synchron...”
“Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time”
“The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all......58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—includi...”
“all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness”
“One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.”
“Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what’s going on in the lives of other people — what they’re thinking about, what they’re doing, what they’re looking at — by paying attention to the s...”
“I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, bu...”
“Our tomorrows must be met at the time of their arrival... with the HOPE they are as BEAUTIFUL as today!”
“Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.”
“A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.”
