Quotes About Awareness

Love isn't blind, it's retarded.

Watch out, life is watching you!!

Don't do acid, kids.

dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

Every moment has the possibility of delighting us, nurturing us, supporting us - if we are here to see it. Life is a tremendous gift, but most of us are missing it because we are watching a mental movie of our lives instead. As we learn to trust in the moment and to value awareness, we learn how to turn off the internal mood projector and start living a much more interesting life - the one we are actually starring in.

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" THOMAS MERTON

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.