Quotes About Awareness

One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug—especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes.

It's Your World...Pay Attention

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run … but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. … History

you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them.

A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worse fears can come true at any moment.

I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Nigdy nie mia?em zbyt du?o czasu na zastanawianie si?, ale czu?em, ?e moje instynkty by?y s?uszne.

As the Siamese says: Pea rattles loud in empty head.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

We should witness all things non-reactively, especially our moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others.

You can find God in the world of everyday affairs as readily as anywhere.11

Suffering led the Buddha to enlightenment, and it may cause us, against our will, to grow in compassion, awareness, and possibly eventually peace.

The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one's understanding of the ultimate nature of things.

The ultimate truth is that nirvana is not infinitely distant but infinitely near, reaching gracefully toward us, as it were, and being the ground on which we already stand if we but knew this. Only the blinders of egoism hide this truth from us.

What is to be known in raja yoga's final stage is without limits. The mind continues to think- if that is the right word- but of no thing. This does not mean that it is thinking of nothing, that it is a total blank. It has perfected the paradox of seeing the invisible. It is filled with that which is separated from all qualities, neither this nor that, without form, without a name. p49

Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.

Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.

si las puertas de la percepcion fueran depuradas, todo apareceria ante el ser humano tal y como es, infinito

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he couldn't see me, and that I was aware and fully conscious and he wasn't

Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before.