Quotes About Awareness

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

When learning becomes you, then it appears as you need it, when you are being you.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Read to refresh your mind.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.