External Awareness Quotes

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

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

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

In elite gymnastics, I was surrounded by this bubble, that gymnastics was literally all I knew, and I'd like to know about worldly issues.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on.

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.