Quotes About Awareness

I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.

I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies.

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

It's never possible to know for certain the "true" source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection) and reality. The question quickly becomes, What is real? It is always possible to consciously or unconsciously "see" almost anything we want. I can look at the ceiling and see an image of the Virgin Mary, or I can look at the ceiling and see that the spackler did a damn good job.

Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás" (René Descartes)

Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.

Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra has a hundred, And You and I, only two .".

Accept that nothing happens without a reason. Accept that all experiences have a purpose.

According to Vedic scriptures, God does not 'create' this world. He simply made all creatures aware of it. Awareness leads to discovery. Discovery is creation.

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation.

The idea of a powerful woman aware of her own desires made people uncomfortable and so she was portrayed as barbaric, even demonic, not in control of her passions.

showing does not guarantee seeing. Telling does not guarantee hearing. Gyana is not vi-gyana.

Arjuna, to expand your mind, use intelligence to draw your mind away from sensuality, so that there is no self-obsession, aggression, arrogance, desire, anger, possessiveness, attraction or repulsion. You are content in solitude, consuming little, expressing little, connected with the world and aware.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 51 to 53 (paraphrased).

Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego.

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

Peace comes when one comes to terms with the three worlds: the personal world, the cultural world and the natural world.

there is a reality greater than what you perceive.