Quotes About Awareness

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

When three people call you an ass, put on a bridle.