Quotes About Awareness

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.