Quotes About Awareness

Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.

The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To know is not less than to feel.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.

Nos olvidamos, a veces, de nuestra sombra o es que nuestra sombra nos abandona de vez en cuando?

El solo hecho de poseer un hígado y dos riñones ¿no justificaría que nos pasáramos los días aplaudiendo a la vida y a nosotros mismos? ¿Y no basta con abrir los ojos y mirar, para convencerse que la realidad es, en realidad, el más autentico de los milagros?

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.

Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge the effects without attending to the causes.

We may gain some inkling of what God is if we attempt by means of every sensation to reach the reality of each creature, not giving up until we are alive to what transcends it … Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies,

Certain people are annoyed that I believe in God. But I want people to know that God is present in everything, in the concert hall, in the ocean, on a mountain, even on the underground.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

by trying to become "no-thought and no-thinking," we create the idea of "no-thought and no-thinking." This is one example of the wrong direction of zazen.

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.

those who are inclined to tranquil meditation are apt to think that they have sat long enough as soon as disturbing thoughts within them subside during meditation. But thinking that they have sat long enough in itself is dualistic. As long as they are captured by such a thought, they cannot be liberated from dualism however long they may wait.

think that the essential point of Zen lies in "proof," which is variously called "right awareness of no-self," "seeing one's original self-nature," and so on.

When all are seated, the jikijitsu claps the taku (wooden clappers) once, followed by the four successive rings of the small metal bell called inkin at measured intervals. This is the sign of shijo, which means the beginning of samadhi or zazen. In the ensuing period of quietness, the slightest movement of our bodies, even coughing, is forbidden.

Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.

It goes without saying that the method of melting the ice of our egos into water, as they originally are, lies in samadhi.