Quotes about Awareness

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

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.