Quotes About Awareness

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

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 eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

I become the transparent eyeball...

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

We are what we think about all day long.

It is better to hear than to speak.

we are what we know.

But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.

Iako putujemo svetom da na?emo lepotu, moramo je nositi sa sobom ili je ne?emo na?i.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and they unconsciously seek for it in each other. We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

When I heard the Earth-song / I was no longer brave; / My avarice cooled / Like lust in the chill of the grave.

?ovek je ono što misli tokom ?itavog dana

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 eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The

so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess

An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.

Ghost-like we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Time like space, is part of the permanent context of life. Time does not pass, we pass.