Quotes About Awareness

Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

I'd never even considered my nipples before, but I made a quick mental note to consider them later.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I'm talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I'm going to learn a lot today, I'll have to do it by listening. As

Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?

Have you listened to your heart?

Do you know that when Hitler's Final Solution to eliminate the Polish Jews was first mentioned in the Times it was on page twenty-eight. And on page six of the Washington Post.

During the first nineteen months of the epidemic, the New York Times wrote about it a total of seven times:

I'm frightened nobody important is going to give a damn because it seems to be happening mostly to gay men.

Nobody listens for very long anyway. There's a new disease of the month every day.

This story has no point but stillness itself...

Halfway around the world, Marines were walking into an ambush, in a firefight, or fighting hand-to-hand in a desperate life-and-death struggle. Here we were, laughing and drinking as if none of that was happening, but I knew it was, and I knew what it felt like. I felt ashamed!

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

He could clearly see what was happening right in front of him. But he couldn't see what God was doing off in the distance. As

They say you don't need to develop jhanic states, just enough concentration to be with any object for as long as it exists, so you can see that it arises and passes away.

It is good to sit a little longer than you want to so you see the part of your mind that resists practice

Sometimes the breath is very fine, like silk or satin; it enters and exits freely. How wonderful just to be breathing! At other times it is coarse, more like burlap; it fights its way in and out. Sometimes the breath is so deep and smooth that it affects the whole body, relaxing us profoundly. Other times it's so short and pinched, hurried and agitated, that our minds and bodies are like that, restless and uncomfortable.

direct seeing of our inner and outer life, and on learning from what we see, has invigorated and inspired my life.

We're not looking at the breath in order to get to enlightenment.