Quotes about Awareness

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

What we are looking for is what is looking.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.