Awareness asks us to notice life more gently and more fully. It invites us to stop looking backward in anger or forward in fear, and instead to become present to what is unfolding around us. As James Thurber wrote,
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
If you were a fully realized person, whatever the hell that would be, you wouldn’t fool around writing books. ~ William Gass
As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases. ~ Will Schutz
By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one-pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of the Eternal. ~ Lao Tzu
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half-awake. We are making use of only a small part of our mental resources. ~ William James
It is no use fixing our minds on higher things if we ignore what is going on around us. ~ Aesop's Fables
Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left. ~ Malay Proverb
All men desire by nature to know. ~ Aristotle
Observe what is with undivided awareness. ~ Bruce Lee
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of. ~ Edward de Bono
A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated. ~ Ram Dass
Try to be one on whom nothing is lost. ~ Henry James
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat, when we see children in a moment when they are really children. ~ Thomas Merton
I was a gem concealed; me my burning ray revealed. ~ Koran
We must be careful and mindful to truly see what is going on, not through a narrow view, but a more open, panoramic view, so that we can hear the voice of invitation. ~ Issho Fujita
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. ~ Ram Dass
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~ Henry Miller
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. ~ Fernando Pessoa
So each individual has awareness for the things they truly identify with. Identification is love. ~ Louise Nevelson