Quotes About Awareness

Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

So if you are going to look for a pearl, it is best to still the waves; it will be hard to find if you stir the water. When the water of concentration is still and clear, the pearl of mind reveals itself.

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander from home with a hidden treasure. Have you not heard it said, "In the ear it is like the great and small sounds in an empty valley, none not complete; in the eye it is like myriad images under a thousand suns, none able to avoid casting shadows"? If you seek it outside of sense experience, you will hinder the living meaning of Zen.

Emotion in the heart is like poison in a substance, like fire latent in reeds-one ought to be aware of this. Therefore, as superior people do their work, they do not feel exalted when given status, do not feel aggrandized when honored, do not pay attention when treated familiarly, do not become suspicious when treated with aloofness, and cannot be abased. Thus they cannot be moved by emotions.

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an artist this may have some advantages.

Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.

The worldling will not face his colossal inner blah.

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

Contemplation and self-indulgence do not mix.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.