Quotes about Awareness

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

Life is holy and every moment is precious.

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.

Only one thing I'll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they're not hurting anyone while they're sitting in front of that Eye. But neither was Japhy….

It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.