Witness Quotes

• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Self, Land

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• Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Enough, Know Yourself

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• The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.  When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed.  The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.

  Ken Wilber

  Simple, Meditation, Soul

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mother, Running, Listening

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• As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Mind, Doe

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• Never try to stop the thoughts.
  If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful.
  Yet in reality the mind does not exist.
  There is no mind.
  There is no such thing as a mind.
  So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.

  Robert Adams

  Powerful, Winning, Reality

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Real, Behind The Scenes

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Speak, Christ, Ashamed

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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• It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Unbroken, Faces

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Evil

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• Truth is it's own witness.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Truth Is

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• Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

  Louie Giglio

  Stories, World, Scar

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• To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mean, Way, Walking On Water

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.29, Convergent Books

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• Every believer is a witness whether he wants to be or not.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Christian, Want, Believer

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  What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hurt, Pain, Bystanders

  "Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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• That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

  Angeles Arrien

  Forever, Changed

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• Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

  William Mountford

  Nature, Clouds, Earth

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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• If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

  Lyman Abbott

  Bears, Ifs

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, People, Enough

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• History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Past, Example, Action

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• When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

  Bernie Glassman

  Inspirational, Death, Buddhist

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin

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• Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

  David Jeremiah

  Lying, Responsibility, Privilege

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• We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

  Ray Bradbury

  Spiritual, Jobs, Godly

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