Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes the universe tries very hard to send you a message.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.

She dreamed of him, his face, filling the dream. Things are ending, he told her. This civilization; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls. She didn't agree, not even in the dream, but she knew, as she dreamed, that there was no point telling him now.

The old man has always believed in the mutability of things; has known that no matter how solid the ground beneath your feet may seem, it can, at any moment, turn into quicksand and suck you down. Always be prepared.

H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it? [ 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times , December 12, 1991)]

But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.

Már régen tökélyre vitte azt a képességet, hogy csak azt lássa, akit látni akar, ami létfontosságú készség, ha az ember a világnak nem áldozata, hanem ura akar lenni.

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

Zaman?n h?zland?r?lm?? ak??? kar??s?nda kendimi yavaÅŸlatmay? amaçl?yordum boÅŸu boÅŸuna.

From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.

When ninety-nine percent of people thought the world was flat," Evel said, "it didn't make the world flat. The world didn't need people to believe it was round to be round. Right now, ninety-nine percent of people are happily having a picnic on a railway track. Which doesn't mean there isn't a train coming down the line, traveling pretty fast. The railway train doesn't need people to believe it's coming, because it's coming.

The universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

had sought, and with that comprehension came a new clarity, a return to sanity, and even a kind of wisdom.

A poet's work,' he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

Your whole picture of the world broke, he said, and you felt like you had gone mad. Yes. And I didn't even notice. Boys. They notice nothing.

A maior parte das coisas que importam na nossa vida acontece na nossa ausência.

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom.