Quotes About Awareness

Burnt child fire dreadeth.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

You stand in your own light.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

Walking through a meadow calling the plants by name is like entering a room of friends instead of strangers.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

According to Zen legend, when a visitor asked the fifteenth-century master Ikkyu to write down a maxim of "the highest wisdom," Ikkyu wrote one word: "Attention." The visitor asked, irritably, "Is that all?" This time, Ikkyu wrote two words: "Attention. Attention.

suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

In other words, they feel part of the mainstream, and they are less likely to perceive the importance of race in other people's lives. This is what some commentators would refer to as "white privilege.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

With meditation, the misinformed assumption is that the practice is aimed at relaxation and bliss. It is not. It is about attention and awareness of the here and now, which is precisely what wild people need in order to survive in a state of nature.

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

Travel light, and death will never find you.