Quotes About Awareness

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.