Quotes About Awareness

The body is not the Bodhi tree. The mind, no mirror bright. Since nothing is there, on what should dust alight?

MOYERS: And what does the idea of reincarnation suggest? CAMPBELL: It suggests that you are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here.

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

No humbling of reality to precept.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

There is nothing more dangerous than a lengthy cocktail hour.

Let the night teach us what we are, and the day what we should be. THOMAS TRYON, 16911 T

When thy neighbours house is on fire, by its light thou mayest see thine own danger,

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.