2,920 Quotes About Awareness

It seems wise to spend time and energy on fixing the problems we see out there - but if we don't take a step back and see the OVERALL big picture - the real CAUSE of all of these results that we're focused on - our efforts will only go so far.

The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.