Zola Jesus Quotes

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!