Quotes About Awareness

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

I am the only real truth I know.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

Somebody's boring me; I think it's me.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Girls are much more psychic than guys. They're the first to know if you're going to get laid.