Quotes About Awareness

Öyle konular vard?r ki yaÅŸamda, sana soruluncaya kadar kendin bile bunlar? bildiÄŸini bilmezsin.

Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now.

Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.

Christopher Isherwood

A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

If you can only quiet the Ego, soul and body begin to function of themselves, in

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. (Would you like fries with that? Shut up and stop killing whales! Thank you. Drive through, please.)

So I'm like getting some perspective now - like when you're a kid and you think it sucks that you have to eat hydrogenated peanut butter on your PBJ, and then you see one of those starving commercials kids with flies in their eyes, who don't even have a sandwich - and you're all, 'Well, that sucks.

He was a LEPER, you idiot! Not a leopard.

Solo estando preparado para tu muerte puedes vivir plenamente».

Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel.

there comes a point where you'll find something out, where you'll see something, or where something will suddenly come together, and you'll realize that you know something that no one else in the world knows yet. Just you. No one else. You realize that all the value you have is in that one thing, and you're only going to have it for a short time until you tell someone else, but for that time you are more alive than you'll ever be.

he realized, with no little sense of irony, that until he became Death, he'd never felt so alive.

And without guilt and dread, who am I?

That's it?" Joshua asked, as he hopped off his post and winced upon landing. "Why did we set up twenty posts if we were only going to use three?" "Why were you thinking of twenty when you can only stand on one?" answered Three. "I have to pee," I said. "Exactly," said the monk. So there you have it: Buddhism.   Each

Every time you give them a new metaphor for the kingdom they see the metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the cat looks at your finger, not at what you're pointing at.

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat," Gaspar would say, meaning that every bit of our being was to be in the moment, completely aware of the now, no past, no future, nothing dividing us from everything that is. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

but all things considered, he could go a very long time not being run over by a Volvo again and feel just dandy about it. He

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat