Quotes About Awareness

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit. The trouble with trying to think clearly is that our emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Think more interestingly more clearly more often, because life is more interesting than you think.

If you really want to change Reality, the first thing to do is figure out what Reality really is.

The more accurate you are about Reality, the more fun you can have with it.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's all in the mind.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

Teach me, my God and King,In all things thee to seeAnd what I do in any thing,To do it as for thee.

Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.

Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.

Forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which pettie thoughts have made, and made to thee Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

The Feeling Being

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

As soon as we become aware of money, we develop beliefs about it-- beliefs we cling to, sometimes for the rest of our lives, often at the cost of our souls.