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Quotes About Awareness

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.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku
That was totally his fault-Kenji's.. He tried to cross on red.. You ignore the signal, you'll get hurt. every kindergartener knows.. red means stop." -Slam Dunk
~ Takehiko Inoue
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.
~ Takehiko Inoue
Ce lui qui nage au milieu des flots ne se rend pas compte de l'immensité de la mer
~ Takehiko Inoue
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.
~ Takuan S?h?
When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.
~ Takuan Soho
Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well
~ Takuan Soho
When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree
~ Takuan Soho
One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.
~ Takuan Soho
It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.
~ Takuan Soho
Although it does not mindfully keep guard, In the small mountain fields the scarecrow does not stand in vain.
~ Takuan Soho
If the mind congeals in one place and remains with one thing, it is like frozen water and is unable to be used freely: ice that can wash neither hands nor feet. When the mind is melted and is used like water, extending throughout the body, it can be sent wherever one wants to send it.
~ Takuan Soho
Jei kas pastatyt? veidrod?, tai veidrodžio atspindžiai b?t? matomi. Nors veidrodis atspindi ir apie tai negalvodamas, jo atspindžiai vis tiek yra preciziškai tiksl?s. Savo mintis sud?damas lyg veidrod?, kovos men? žmogus taip pat nem?stys apie sprendimus, ta?iau priklausomai nuo jo min?i? veidrodžio ryškumo, sprendimas tarp teisingo ir neteisingo bus priimtas be jokios minties.
~ Takuan Soho
Life is too short to be in a hurry." If we are always on the go, we are reacting to the exigencies of day-to-day life rather than allowing ourselves the space to create a happy life.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth" and so it goes away. —Robert M. Pirsig
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
yourself into a sheep, and you'll meet a wolf nearby.
~ Talia Carner
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
~ Talib Kweli
Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Today I will be an observer. Today I will not judge that which I know nothing about. Today I will see that we are all Divine brothers and sisters on our own individual journeys co-creating situations that lead us to soulful healing. Today I will see that I AM exactly where I AM suppose to be & the lessons I AM learning at this very moment are so very important. Today I remember that I AM playing my very special part in someone elses journey. Namaste. Tamaey Gottuso
~ Tamaey Gottuso
Whatever you do, know that you always have choices about what to do with thoughts—including the ones that belong to someone else. In
~ Tamar E. Chansky
Only when we have a grasp on the meaning of Divinity and Divine purpose can we possibly understand what we are here for.
~ Tamar Frankiel
A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up.
~ Tamar Geller