Quotes About Awareness

When was the last time … … you lost track of time? … you instinctively volunteered for something? … someone had to tear you away from what you were doing? … you felt completely in control of what you were doing? … you surprised yourself by how well you did? … you were singled out for praise? … you were the only person to notice something?

To state the obvious, how we see is to a large extent the product of what we have seen.

And I took it for granted that he knew all of these things about himself.

They are soon gone, and we fly away. . . . So teach us to count our days / that we may gain a wise heart" (90.12).

Its meanings include: The risen Christ journeys with us, is with us, whether we know it or not. Sometimes there are moments when we do recognize this.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

Respiraro, si te videro.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

We understand more than we know.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.