Quotes About Awareness

Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.

We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.

When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met Yamashita. Now I've come to the awareness that I'm a martial artist with some advanced academic credentials. "We know there are people more qualified, Burke,

I read and keep silent. I am one of the silent watchers. I know that every sentence, every word, every picayune punctuation that appears in the public press is perused and revised and deleted in the interests of advertisers and bondholders. The fountain of national life is poisoned at the source.

God's work does not begin when we show up; it is already well underway. A big part of our job is to slow down and observe where He is already at work and join Him there.12

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

They think too little who talk too much.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?