Quotes About Awareness

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.