Quotes About Awareness

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings.

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small.

As the practitioner incorporates the quality of tai chi movement into his life, he finds that he stops banging into things. The result of not falling into each step provides the opportunity to instantaneously ease back from unexpected barriers.

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.

Statt irgendetwas zu sagen, stand er auf und suchte aus eng zusammengekniffenen Augen den Himmel ab. Er wusste nicht, warum er das tat, aber er spürte, dass es wichtig war.

I know neither day nor night, and the whole world fades around me.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Think about death make us live better.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

three thousand realms in a single moment of life.

I was doing the LGBTQ version of a minstrel show.

Questo è l'arte: saper interpretare lo spirito del proprio tempo, saper cogliere il vento del cambiamento e prendere il largo a gonfie vele.

To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.

The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.

The truth is that at the time, I didn't have a genuine awareness of why I was so pissed off or even specifically who I was pissed off at. I was just pissed off.