Quotes About Awareness

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

Gerçekte hep iki zaman aras?nday?zd?r: Gövdenin ve bilincin zaman? aras?nda. Bütün öbür kültürlerdeki ruh ve gözde aras?ndaki ayr?m iÅŸte buradan kaynaklan?r. Öncelik her zaman ruhundur ve yeri bir baÅŸka zaman?n akt??? çizgidedir.

Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.

It's the lies we tell ourselves that make us repetitive.

You put something down and you don't know immediately what it is. It has always been like that. ...All you have to know is whether you're lying or whether you're telling the truth, you can't afford to make a mistake about that distinction any longer.

insan?n bir ?eye dokunmas? demek, kendisini o ?eyle ili?kili bir duruma sokmas? demektir.

kar??daki tepeyi gördüÄŸümüzü kabul edersek o tepeden goruldugumuzu de kabul etmemiz gerekir. görüÅŸün iki yanl?l??? konuÅŸmalar?n iki yanliligindan daha bask?nd?r.

Seeing comes before words. A child looks and recognises before it can speak

To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one's own place within it, and to reassemble it as seen from his.

A]nimals are always the observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we know about them is an index of our power, and thus an index of what separates us from them. The more we know, the further away they are.

The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.

You can put your principles into a match-box but what fills the whole room is your instinctive responses.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

But never did Henry, as he thought he did,end anyone and hacks her body upand hide the pieces, where they may be found.He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing.Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up.Nobody is ever missing.

He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.