Quotes About Awareness

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

Freedom begins between the ears.

No one who lives in error is free.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.