Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Field and Knower

What happens to you is not who you are.

The body is a field; you are the one who knows it.

See the same awareness behind every pair of eyes.

Your feelings are weather in the field; you are the one who sees.

With the eye of wisdom, you see what is you and what only happens to you.

Learning to tell the field from the knower is the road to freedom.

Know the difference between your circumstances and yourself.

Treat the body as a home for the sacred, not an enemy.

Care for your body as a way of caring for your spirit.

Know the knower, not only the known.

Know your body, but remember you are more than your body.

The one who knows the body is not the body.

The same knower looks out through every body.

In every field, the same quiet knower is present.

Know your body, your mind, and the awareness behind them.

Pleasure and pain come and go through the field.

You are the witness of your desires, not their servant.

Every living thing is a meeting of body and awareness.

All creatures, moving and still, share the same origin.

Seeing the same union in every creature softens the heart.

The body deserves respect, even on days you are unhappy with it.

Ask the big questions: what is nature, what is the self, what is knowing?

You live in a field, and you are the one who watches it.

A farmer cares for the field without becoming the field.

Look after the field kindly: it is the ground of your days.

To witness your own body is a kind of freedom.

Knowing the field and the knower is true knowledge.

All bodies are fields; one awareness knows them all.

Equality begins with recognising the same knower in everyone.

Learn the nature of the field before you try to master it.

Desire, aversion, joy and sorrow are part of the field, not the knower.

Firmness, too, is a quality you can grow.

Life arises where field and knower meet.

Honour both the body and the awareness that animates it.

Light the whole field of your life with attention.

Treat your body as a field to tend, not a thing to be.

Tend your body as a gardener tends a garden.

You are not the only one who knows; all share the same knowing.

Real knowledge sees both what is observed and who observes.

Ask what your life is made of and where it comes from.

Understanding the field makes you a better caretaker of it.

Aversion is as much a movement of the field as attraction.

Understanding the field, the knowledge and the goal prepares you for freedom.

Do not wage war on the ground you stand on.

Separate the question: what is the field, and who is the knower?

Know that you are known by the same awareness as everyone else.

To meet life is to meet the meeting of body and awareness.

Knowledge, the known, and the knower: three parts of one understanding.

The knower changes as the known deepens.

How could you treat your body more kindly this week?

How are you tending the field you have been given?

Which feeling are you most identified with right now?

What are you ready to see more clearly about yourself?

Which of life's big questions are you carrying?

Whom can you recognise as a fellow knower today?

Which pattern in your life would you like to see clearly?

What living being has recently reminded you of the one source?

What part of your field needs more light today?

The knower and the known are not two.

Knowing yourself frees you from repeating the same patterns.

Name the movements of your mind and watch them pass.

You are the one who sees, not merely the seeing.

Learn the map of the self: body, senses, mind, and the knower.

The powers of the knower are quiet and constant.

The senses serve the one seated behind them.

The witness is never entangled.

Mind and senses are tools the soul picks up, not the soul itself.

Ear, eye, touch, taste, smell: five windows, one observer.

To act well, know what, how, and who.

You are more the witness than the maker.

End the chapter by returning to the one who watches.

Find the witness behind the thinker.