Quotes About Awareness

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

Maya is the fear that permeates us so fully that we don't know it's there. Maya is the organizing principle of emotional energy in the fear-based, segregated state, and Maya is inherently mysterious.

Waking up is not a scholastic pursuit or a conceptual challenge. The ability to open the next door is the only thing that matters, and the key can come in any package; a book, a stubbed toe, an advertising jingle, a leaf of grass. If your intent is in place, then the universe will act as your librarian and you'll always have you what you need when you need it.

We don't want truth, we want a particular truth; one that doesn't threaten ego; one that doesn't exist. We insist on a truth that makes sense given what we know, not knowing that we know nothing.

There is no disorder. Nothing is random or chaotic, only fully perceived or not.

An objective observer might look at the vast majority of spiritual seekers today and classify them as spiritually self-lobotomized. They set out to find life and discover truth, and wind up sitting in a dark room repeating a meaningless syllable, eyes closed, brain silenced, convinced that they're actually making a great journey.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing. Carl Jung

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about.

In some way, my saying that I'm not here now feels sort of like an acknowledgment that I am here now, only feeling that I'm not.

As the Dude says, New shit comes to light, and when it does, you'll pick it up again.

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I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

No one chooses to be overwhelmed, but they sure as heck allow it to happen.

I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?