Quotes About Awareness

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.