Quotes About Awareness

Painters have often taught writers how to see.

That's what the Blues and Spirituals are all about. It is the ability to look on things as they are and survive your losses, or even not survive them—to know that your losses are coming. To know they are coming is the only possible insurance you have, a faint insurance, that you will survive them.

In a dangerous, turbulent world full of threats and disruptions, you need to "protect your flanks"—identify and protect against vulnerabilities that, if exposed or exploited, could kill or cripple you.

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts.

people worried more about the leader—what he would say, what he would think, what he would do— than they worried about external reality and what it could

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things...but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the "I am" of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.

Before we get too wrapped around the axle

This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don't like a lot of what I see nowadays.

Their souls touch and I seem to be more aware of God because of it.

Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now .

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd if the Truth is hidden?' Ã¢â'¬Â Toranaga said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœIt's already clear,' Ã¢â'¬Â Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

They put me with a blind monk who taught me how to massage and to see again with my fingers. Now my fingers tell me more than my eyes used to, I think.

The Blessed Jesus said, 'First cast the mote out of your own eye before you cast the beam out of mine.

It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.

It's unseemly to criticize without knowledge.

you could not defend what you didn't understand.

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.

Wherever you go, you can never leave yourself behind.   —Polish Proverb

A human being is a part of the whole called by us "Universe"—a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Albert Einstein

There's a lot to be done," he told them. "Look around, see what it is, and do it.