Quotes About Awareness

There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not fine them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers

But unlike many of his detractors, one suspects, Jung worked on his shadow: 'It is indeed no small matter to know one's own guilt and one's own evil, and there is certainly nothing to be gained by losing sight of one's shadow. When we are conscious of our guilt we are in a more favourable position – we can at least hope to change and improve ourselves' (CW X, para. 440).

By arousal, I mean a condition of heightened alertness, awareness, interest, and excitement: a generally enhanced state of being.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of 'adaptation through maladaptation' which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

The hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

Was this what it meant to have the eye? To be able to discern a distinction in quality so subtle as to be invisible to the man on the street?

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

There has always been a fuss. The difference is that now you and others are listening.