Quotes About Awareness

After all, the true seeing is within.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

When the commonplace We must all die transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness I must die-- and soon, then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.

I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.