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Quotes About Awareness

Check on your strong friends.
~ The Blonde Jon
Don't make assumptions.
~ The Blonde Jon
A brahmin once asked the Blessed One: Are you a God? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a saint? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a magician? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. What are you then? ''I am awake.
~ The Buddha
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
~ The Buddha
Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to.
~ The Cheshire Cat
A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip
~ The Dhammapada
All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ The Dhammapada
As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through an unreflecting mind.
~ The Dhammapada
The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour?s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.
~ The Dhammapada
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
~ The Eagles
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
~ The Hitopadesa
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
~ The Talmud
Truth doesn't make a noise.
~ The White Stripes
The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.
~ Thea Astley
You've been making the wrong mistakes.
~ Thelonious Monk
YOU'VE GOT TO DIG IT TO DIG IT, YOU DIG? ... ~ Thelonious Monk
~ Thelonious Monk
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
~ Theodor Haecker
My maternal grandmother was not a philosopher, and she used to say that "words have no bones, but they can break bones." She knew what we all know: a word can cause more pain, more damage than the sharpest knife. As far as she was concerned, saying something and doing something were exactly the same.
~ Theodor Kallifatides
Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves
~ Theodor Reik
Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open
~ Theodor Reik
Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen
~ Theodor Storm
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
~ Theodor W. Adorno