Quotes About Awareness

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Most of us have a bias toward well-spoken and articulate storytellers. But make sure you keep an awareness of this at the front of your mind, for it can cause you to hire glib but unsubstantial people and overlook rare creative talent. Do not overestimate the importance of the person's articulateness.

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.

Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.

For years, I didn't understand this rule of life. I was always resisting change. I used to be so stubborn that a house would have to burn down to get me out of it. Now I know better. I'm glad to say that I have become sensitive to when it's time to move on. I can read the signs, whether they're obvious or subtle, and usually get going without needing to experience heaviness or turmoil.

You might say I was jogging through paradise. Running opened the door to my senses, and I was able to take it all in. I felt my breath moving like a miracle

The things you see when you're not carrying a gun

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

If that idea of the meaningful is dropped, then you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

You will be peaceful when all your ideas about awareness are dropped and you begin to function like a computer. You must be a machine, function automatically in this world, never questioning your actions before, during, or after they occur.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.

You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.

Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.

You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.

Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.

Thought creates the space between the thinker and his thoughts, and then tells himself, "I am looking at my thoughts.

Every thought that is born has to die. It is what they call the death wish. If a thought does not die, it cannot be reborn. It has to die, and with it you die. But you don't die with each thought and breath. You hook up each thought with the next, creating a false continuity. It is that continuity that is the problem.