Quotes About Awareness

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.

the sleeper must awaken

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt

I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Life isn't a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced.

Don't sit with your back to any doors.

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.

The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconsciously. Always ask: 'When I did that, what was I trying to gain?

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Time could be made to serve the mind.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.

Bir geceyi uyan?k geçirmek, ömre bir gün eklemektir.

Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation—the curtains whipped away—she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote.