Quotes About Awareness

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Every woman knows all about everything.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong things, and then the dolls are hurt and abused and lost; and when this happens dolls cannot speak, nor do anything except be hurt and abused and lost. If you have any dolls, you should remember that.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?"

Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.