Quotes About Awareness

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

I need to take everything one step at a time. If I think about that too much, I'll miss this amazing experience.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.