Quotes About Awareness

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.

The blindness I mean is blindness that keeps you from seein' the truth.

from publicly available documents. But now it is also evident that when the mists of leaks, rumors, and denials are pierced, if not the public, then the world's leaders have been aware for some time first, that there is one more planet in our Solar System and second, that we are not alone.

day, us. That the Bible's been saying so all along, clay being what Genesis meant by the "dust of the ground" that formed man, is obvious. What is not so obvious is how often we have been saying it to one another, and without knowing it.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant." --Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Death will get you sober.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.