Quotes about Awareness

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.