Quotes About Awareness

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Science is of no value unless it is accompanied by social concern.

The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes , was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness.

Our highest aim is therefore to become aware of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things, to transcend the notion of an isolated individual self and to identify ourselves with the divine reality. For the Hindu or Buddhist, this realization, which is known as enlightenment, is much more than a mere intellectual act. It is a religious experience involving a total change in the state of consciousness. Eastern philosophy can therefore never be separated from religion.

That is the trouble with a clear mind. For a little while you see things as they really are and you can accurately predict how they're going to shape the future ... and then suddenly you realize you've predicted yourself a week or a month into the future and you can't live the intervening time any more because you've already imagined it in detail.

I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords—those are true—and some do not, and those are merely bad art. Don't you see?

But disillusion is a healthy thing. It leads to reality.

Even at that, I don't suppose I should have been surprised. We all see things now and then.

he must first be true to his god's nature: which is, to hear what we say and hold us to it, to speak truth to man about what's going on in distant places, and to prophecy honestly—though he may try to trick us with words if we don't listen to him very carefully.

The quick, daily glance into the half darkness became an integral part of his life.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.

If you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are.

One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.

we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

They could hang around all day and nobody paid them any mind because society has trained itself not to see the poor and the destitute. That way, we don't have to think about how the richest society on earth allows so many of its citizens to live in the streets like stray dogs.

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.

O became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l'être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.