Quotes About Awareness

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.