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Quotes About Awareness

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
~ Wei Wu Wei
When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
~ Nhat Hanh
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
~ Iain Banks
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.
~ Jean Rhys
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
~ Dogen
It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.
~ Neil Simon
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.
~ Rumi
Never forget that all you have is all you need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
~ John Stuart Mill
South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.
~ Ron Finley
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~ Richard Bach
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
~ Martin Heidegger
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
~ Hugh Grant
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
~ Hannah Arendt
What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
~ Vicente Fox
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.
~ David Eagleman
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson