Quotes About Awareness

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

Apolitical people are often unaware of the procedural aspects of voting.

Contrasting ideas are constantly swirling around us in billions of forms, it's tough to remain vigilant, but just be you and be yourself.

Don't try to be too clever. And when purposefully misspelling common words, proceed with caution.

Everyone supposedly knows from this world what greatness is. However, not everybody realizes that we actually live in such a world.

Facing our true selves is the first step toward living a life of purpose, connection, and genuine joy.

Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn't actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

Lies are very hard to defend, especially when reality is so obvious

Respect your privileges and understand your rights.

To enjoy living and appreciate it, just explore life without commitment and certain routes will become evident to you.

We need to be in touch with our bodies; with what feels good, what feels not so good and what feels wrong.

We've known about climate change for at least six decades. But not until the most recent one was it possible to say that most people believe that climate change is happening and that we need to do something about it.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.