Quotes About Awareness

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.