Quotes About Awareness

The mind is like a parachute - it doesn't work if it's not open.

GÅ'upota ma pewien urok- ignorancja nie.

we're constantly watched and always distracted

world in which we're constantly watched and always distracted.

Mr. Nichols chuckled. "When Ma gets to going, I say to myself, 'Henry, buckle your seat belt!

Joe volunteered to stay awake since he was not particularly tired at the moment. While the others turned in, he stationed himself in a chair near the window. Turning over the pages of a magazine, he listened to the sounds of the hotel coming to life. The buzz of cars in the parking lot indicated that the day shift was replacing the night shift. The elevator clanged as guests arrived and departed. A low hum of voices from the street reached the room.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won't see a thing..

Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives...

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

How many days have again gone silently by; today is 28 May. Have I not even the resolution to take this penholder, this piece of wood, in my hand every day? I really think I do not. I row, ride, swim, lie in the sun.