Quotes About Awareness

When your mind is quiet, when your mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about

I don't think that I am happy, but then again, I don't know. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of living-- of eating, dressing, taking the train to work, that I don't give it enough thought. Maybe happiness is being content. But is it really?

It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself.

I know I am sick, I just thought I was better.

I wonder if I am too close to even see what is written on them. This close, everything is just a blurry mess.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.

I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

APERT  (APE'RT)   adj.[apertus, Lat.]Open.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving.Lockeon Education,¶ 176.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in the morning, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.

Even now that I have concluded this moving recapitulation, it seems as nothing; and the whole world, my dear is as a bit of dirt under my feet.

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.

Paranoia's OK, said Berry, it's just a more primitive defense. If you think someone's watching you, you think you're not alone.