Quotes About Awareness

You are creating your own hell.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then-she only loved the rose; And then-herself alone; and then- She knew not what, but now-she knows.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.