Quotes About Awareness

All men have similar sensations, but not all have similar intuitions.

How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!

Cómo puede el cuerdo saber lo que realmente se siente cuando se está loco?

Landscapes can really remind people of who they are. You are almost forced to submit to your immediate experience; you're practically compelled to perform an act of self-loving.

Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To

Gastamos actualmente en bebidas y tabaco más de lo que gastamos en educación. Esto,desde luego, no es sorprendente. El afán de escapar de sí mismo y del ambiente se halla en la mayoría de nosotros casi todo el tiempo.

The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Confronted by a chair which looked like the Last Judgment—or, to be more accurate, by a Last Judgment which, after a long time and with considerable difficulty, I recognized as a chair—I found myself all at once on the brink of panic.

But there's another one who doesn't get frightened." "Which one is that?" "The one that doesn't talk—just looks and listens and feels what's going on inside.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

To the extent that there is attachment to 'I,' 'me,' 'mine,' there is no attachment to, and therefore no unitive knowledge of, the divine Ground.

that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

Lo que había dado a Helmholtz la desagradable conciencia de ser él mismo y estar totalmente solo, era un exceso de inteligencia.

In the dark silence, in the void of all sensation, something began to know it. Very dimly at first, from immeasurably far away, but gradually the presence approached. The dimness of that other knowledge grew brighter ...

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.

Do not strive to seek after the true," writes a Zen master, "only cease to cherish opinions.

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

Ve sólo Uno en todas las cosas; es el segundo el que te descarría

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

The legs, for example, of that chair - how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes - or was it several centuries? - not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them - or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for I was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were they) being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee. Hans Denk