Quotes About Awareness

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.