Quotes About Awareness

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

We are wiser than we know.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

A man is what he thinks about all day long

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.