Quotes About Awareness

In the final stage of ego-lessness there is an 'obscure knowledge' that All is In all - that All is actually each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to 'perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe'.

Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.

Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

He had discovered Time and Death and God.

Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.

The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored.

Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take.

All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all. When it does anything more - when it tries too hard, for example, when it worries, when it becomes apprehensive about the future - it lowers the effectiveness of those forces and may even cause the devitalized body to fall ill. In my present state, awareness was not referred to as ego; it was, so to speak, on its own.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

What fun it would be, he thought, if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two.

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively dissonance of its colours. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Shanta shook her head emphatically, That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented. Not the memory of a form of words addressed to somebody in your imagination.