“Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.”

“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”

“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.”

“Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant!If you can honestly say that you are fully aware of what you’re up against in life, you are brilliant. Being aware means you are informed―alert, knowledgeable, sophisticated―and you have the tools to visualize, strategize, focus, and win.The more aware you are of life and its difficulties, of how people act and their effect on you, of your own quirks and how you handle both good and bad situations, the better off you are. But how many of us are that aware?”

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”

“Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.”