Quotes About Awareness

The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.

Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Hell is truth seen too late.

O men, with sisters dear!O men, with mothers and wives!It is not linen you're wearing out,But human creatures' lives!

The master Wen-yu summed it up when he answered a demand for the First Principle of Ch'an with, "If words could tell you, it would become the Second Principle.

One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.

Zen would have our perception of the world, indeed our very thoughts, be nonverbal.

Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.

There's no escaping the Taoist adage, "Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak.

Words can point the way, but the path must be traveled in silence.

revised them to suit Zen purposes.

According to Ch'an (and Zen), understanding comes only by ignoring the intellect and heeding the instincts, the intuition.

the only way to really understand the message is to stop trying to "understand" it.

the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the multitudinousness of external objects, cling to the notions of being and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and not-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity. . .

Zen art makes one aware of the work of art itself.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

...rousing himself from a reverie, which had degenerated into an absolute snooze.

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.