Quotes About Awareness

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.