Quotes about Awareness

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

To return home, to see into one's own nature, is the end aimed at by the practitioner, But how is one to see into one's own nature? It is necessary to bring light to one's existence, to live life, to render present and permanent the awareness of being. Put in another way, it is necessary that one sees the cyprus in the courtyard. If one does not see the presence of the cyprus in his own garden, how can one see into his own nature?

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.