Quotes About Awareness

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

In other words, she reflected, they hadn't known the hardship or the happiness of true conjugal life. But if only they'd been aware that they were lovers, and not husband and wife, and lived out their relationship as it really was, their experience might have been totally different. True, they might have been ostracized, and they would have lost their easy tranquillity — but they might also have felt a keener, more intense kind of joy.

Silence speaks when words can't.

The first sign of senility is loss of memory. I forget the other two.

Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

I like rumors. I find out so much about me that I didn't even know!

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

Actually, from the Buddhist context all words—and all beings—are verbs, in dynamic activity.

Think with your whole body.

Your world and the cat's world are not the same.

Ici et maintenant, les autres ne sont pas moi, je ne suis pas les autres. Si je ne pratique pas, je ne peux pas comprendre. Si quelqu'un d'autre fait, je ne peux pas être dans ce qu'il fait.

Quand notre activité se termine, quand notre vie est finie, alors, il faut mourir. Il faut comprendre la mort.

Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

From time to time we complain about all kinds of things about other people, and we feel that we are being deceived. My father told us that these others are not living outside ourselves.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

What will happen will happen, whether you know of it or not. Believe me, it is not always better to know." "Knowing must be better," Shigeru said. "Then no one can take you by surprise." "Someone will always take you by surprise, because no matter how much you know, you can never know everything.