Plato Quotes

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Just, because also - also - it lights up your big dumb face.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.