Quotes About Awareness

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

Jei kada nor?si k? pasmerkti, prisimink, jog ne visi žmon?s tur?jo toki? galimybi?, koki? tur?jai tu.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance.

I, an unnaturally large caterpillar, will reveal to you that of yourself which yet you know not

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Sadness crept over me—a sadness I didn't question, a sadness so profound I understood it could not have come from life, or any source within my conceptual scope, but instead seeped into me from the very air, from the whole extant universe in which I was less than a speck, sadness that was not emotion but the awareness of vast emptinesses.

A large color plate of a cat statue caught my eye and I gazed at it for several moments, my mind empty of thought. Without an ego, one simply looks. The image of the cat, entirely whole and entirely static, is a signal to the mind to come to rest. There is no immediate sense of beauty, only the act of seeing.

Don't belittle today's moment—the "now"—by trying to move into another metron prematurely

So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands?

I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law . Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose !

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.