Quotes About Awareness

Most of culture lies hidden and is outside voluntary control, making up the warp and weft of human existence. Even when small fragments of culture are elevated to awareness, they are difficult to change, not only because they are so personally experienced but because people cannot act or interact at all in any meaningful way except through the medium of culture.

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

Today I think Only with scents,—scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field... It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth...

The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it ceases to be illusion and becomes an expression or aspect of reality and experience.

Yet I think he was not wholly the loser by being unable to think. The eye untroubled by thought sees things like a mirror newly burnished; at night, for example, the musing can see nothing before him but a mist, but if he stops thinking quickly the roads, the walls, the trees become visible. (pp217)

Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what's so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you're finally forced to come face to face with yourself.

Who understands fear and trembling? Those who know God. Who doesn't understand fear and trembling? Those who have made themselves God.

Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

All men think all men mortal but themselves.

Here lies a very successful man, who spontaneously gave up his profession to devote himself to endangered species. He did not take much care of himself so he killed himself. However, what he neglected to consider was that he himself was an endangered species as well: The Handsome American. (Wilder)

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive of it.

No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it." This

When you are aware that you are being triggered, rather than simply reacting, you can remain detached, and separate your emotions from your true self. Tolle

To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its existence as answer to the blankness of sure nonexistence

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

I knew that some day I would find out what was wrong and I would stop being wrong.

When you want to get out, get out.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.