Alertness Quotes

42 Alertness quotes by 27 unique authors

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul… — George Matthew Adams
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback. — Pat Riley
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and… — Archibald Rutledge
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of… — Eckhart Tolle
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far… — Rajneesh
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it,… — Rajneesh
Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean. — Rajneesh
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of… — Pope Benedict XVI
People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness.… — Rajneesh
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a… — Rajneesh
The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die… — Rajneesh
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual… — Ambrose
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least… — Stefan Collini
I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it. — Marcus Thomas
Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that which is ego… — Rajneesh
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. — Confucius
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of… — Eckhart Tolle
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would… — Eckhart Tolle
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. — Aldous Huxley
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study… — B. C. Forbes
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily… — D. Patrick Miller
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be… — Eckhart Tolle
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. — Eckhart Tolle

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