Quotes About Awareness

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

Make no assumptions. About anything. Ever. Stay mindful, my friend, and suspicious. Suspicious, but not frightened by complexity.

An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.

The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

You were talking to yourself, Udinaas. You shouldn't do that.' 'That's what I keep telling myself.

Understand: we exist for the sole purpose of being witness to existence. This and this alone is our collective contribution to all that has been created. We serve to bring existence into being. Without eyes to see, nothing exists.

upon what has gone before, and that one must be mindful of that at every moment, with every choice made and about to be made.

The world outside is in flux—your love of ignorance is not worthy of these precipitous times. Attend this field, travelers, or remain lost at your peril.

A savage awareness seemed to ride the spinning sand, reaching relentlessly past the folds of their telaban, a thousand abrasive fingers clawing paths across their skin. Loose cloth and rope ends spiked upward, whipping with urgent rhythm. The roar filled the air, filled their skulls.

Being alive... isn't the same as feeling good about it.

Friend, I have remembered something.

Choices fall away, without you even noticing, until there are very few left, and you realize that you are nothing but what you are.

I think I am dead. Am I? Am I dead?" "I don't know. But... I think so." "The dead, it is said, do not sleep." Coll knew the saying, and knew that it had originally come from Hood's own temple. He knew, as well, the wry observation that closed the quote. "'While the living do not live'. Not that that makes much sense." "It does to me. For I now know that I have lost what I did not know I once possessed.

We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured.

Only fools think the past is invisible

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant. No, is my answer.