Quotes About Awareness

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

Where did Wayne Newton go when the USA went to shit? I was more stoned than I had realized.

is a direct connection between suburban sprawl and the spiraling cost of government, and most Americans don't see it yet, including many in government. Likewise

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.

Koans offer the possibility that you could free the mind in one jump, without passing through stages or any pretense at logical steps. In the territory that koans open up, we live down a level, before explanations occur, beneath the ground that fear is based on, before the wanting and the scrambling around for advantage, before there is a handle on the problem, before we were alienated from the world. A koan doesn't hide or even

It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.

One sees the environment not with the eyes but with the eyes-in-the-head-on-the-body-resting-on-the-ground.

Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.

Shut your eyes and see.

Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

Empathy is about seeing the world through someone else's eyes. It's about an implicit sense of what an experience is like, what people value, and what emotions are involved

Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

The greatest lie the devil ever told is that he doesn't exist. Those

When passing a door-post watch as you walk on, inspect as you enter. It is uncertain where enemies lurk or crouch in a dark corner.                               Hávamál

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

The good news is that while you will get robbed if you stay in Paris long enough and are not vigilant, you're very unlikely to get beaten up or killed.

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

When you sit in meditation, relaxed and open, everything arises, all of samsara and all of nirvana. Everything is contained within the spacious mind. Is this the Buddha? You can read many dzogchen texts which say that your own mind is the Buddha. This doesn't mean that your ego formation or your sense of self is the Buddha. Rather, within the openness of your awareness there is space for your ego, and the qualities which are arising there are held inside the infinite clarity of the mind.

Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo