Quotes About Awareness

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

The world is as you are.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.