Quotes About Awareness

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.

Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.

Reality doesn't exist for you. You exist for reality.

You can easily recognize the good parts of your life because they are starkly outlined in crap.

Peace is a conscious choice.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

The connections of the ear with vital and out-going thought and emotion are immensely closer and more varied than those of the eye. Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect—its effect upon conscious experience—we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.

Experience in the degree in which it is experience is heightened vitality. Instead of signifying being shut up within one's own private feelings and sensations, it signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it signifies complete interpenetration of self and the world of objects and events.

But the live creature adopts its past; it can make friends with even its stupidities, using them as warnings that increase present wariness. Instead of trying to live upon whatever may have been achieved in the past, it uses past successes to inform the present. Every living experience owes its richness to what Santayana well calls "hushed reverberations.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...

Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?