"Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness."

-- John Cage

"It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life."

-- Lynn Andrews

"When you're aware of your breath what you're really aware of is awareness."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"There are no models, no ideal; the goal isn't t be wise or spiritual ... you just notice what is."

-- Byron Katie

"The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love."

-- Marianne Williamson

"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."

-- David R. Hawkins

"The first step in spiritual growth is to do what we love to do and to become aware of doing it."

-- a. sujata

"The principal function of every artist is to make us see the world that was always there but which we were unaware of until he opened our eyes."

-- Garrett Hardin

"The aim of life is to live and to live is to be aware... joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

-- Henry Miller

"The life of ease is the life we live when we are willing to see our lessons sooner rather than later."

-- Maria Nemeth

"The spiritual secret of the ages is to be aware of what you are doing at the moment you are doing it."

-- Vernon Howard

"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."

-- Thomas Merton

"Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity."

-- Vernon Howard

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

-- Aristotle

"Look not back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

-- James Thurber