Quotes About Awareness

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

The dialogue around climate change can often become mired in gloom and doom, which is understandable given the topic.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

In Gwalior, where I lived initially, I never thought much about fashion. I started understanding fashion only when I moved to Delhi.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Whether you know it or not, when you leave one of my shows, you have a different understanding of disabilities and what disability is.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.