Mr. Lee Quotes

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe.

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

LifeParticles are the particles of Nothingness that have attributes of being and nonbeing, and the particles of energy and consciousness, which are the essence of Life.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want.

To recover the purest Zero mind, and cosmic consciousness, we first have to attain an earth consciousness.

When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.

Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.

Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God’s way to human minds. But God doesn’t need explanations to exist.

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.

By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Your death rides a fast camel.

if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Much that I sought I could not find much that I found I could not bind much that I bound I could not free much that I freed returned to me.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.

I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.

Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

Let the tent be struck.