Quotes About Awareness

Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.

1975 was International Women's Year. I had never heard the word 'feminism' before then. I was writing my books from the experiences of my own life and from watching and studying the lives of those around me in general. I did not know that writing the way I was, was putting me into a special category. I had the first inkling of it on 28 June 1975 when the International Women's League invited me to give a speech.

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.

I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

A jug fills drop by drop The tongue is like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Theind is everything. What we think we become

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

The mind is everything. What you think you become. You yourself, as much anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.