Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

My approach is just being conscious of everything.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Life is but thought.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.