Quotes About Awareness

Consciousness, or your true nature, is allowing everything to be as it is.

I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.

Whatever thoughts you have about yourself aren't who and what you are. There is something more primary that is watching the thoughts.

There exists only the present instant … a Now which always and without end is itself new. MEISTER ECKHART

It's good to be reminded that hubris, left unchecked, can have serious consequences in our lives. If we don't notice soon enough, we might just realize too late that we've lost some very important things in our lives. The beauty of this story is that it reminds us: keep your feet firmly planted on the soil, keep your consciousness and your heart open, and stay available to this relative world and all the human beings within it.

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

But in the Gospel of Thomas, the whole point of Jesus' teaching is to discover your true identity, to realize who and what you really and truly are here and now.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

A camel never sees its own hump.

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.