Quotes About Awareness

We are gradually losing the art of silence. Of walking down the street lost in our own thoughts. Of closing the door to our rooms and being quiet. Of sitting on a park bench and just thinking. We may fear silence because we fear what we might hear from the deepest parts of ourselves. We may be afraid to hear that "still small" voice. What might it say? Might it ask us to change?

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Meanwhile, pipe down, there are people trying to die in here.

one is often the last to know one's own roof is on fire.

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

Watch for contradictory information (page 37).

It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.

Justin Raimondo warns us: "All the elements of a police state are in place: universal surveillance, arbitrary restrictions on travel, and, most importantly, the increasingly radical and aggressive political pushback by the NSA and its supporters in Washington – up to and including the open acknowledgment that they're fully aware of the online habits of whatever members of Congress are foolish enough to get in their way."[37]

The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.

I cannot forget that I have forgotten. I may have used the veil so successfully that I have made my performance believable to myself.

Although it may be evident enough in theory that whoever plays a finite game plays freely, it is often the case that finite players will be unaware of this absolute freedom and will come to think that whatever they do they must do.

Our freedom in relation to nature is not the freedom to change nature; it is not the possession of power over natural phenomena. It is the freedom to change ourselves. We are perfectly free to design a culture that will turn on the awareness that vitality cannot be given but only found, that the given patterns of spontaneity in nature are not only to be respected, but to be celebrated.

Just as infinite players can play any number of finite games, so too can they join the audience of any game. They do so, however, for the play that is in observing, quite aware that they are audience. They look, but they see that they are looking.

Never let a serial killer buy you coffee

Through it all, Eric didn't say a word. He was innocent, Eric reminded himself, he never participated in the pranks. He never lifted a finger to harm David Hallenback. He didn't think it was funny, so he usually walked away, pretending not to see. But Eric did see. Just like all the other kids in the halls. And he slowly began to recognize it for what it was.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

No hay razón para pensar que si el mundo es redondo todos deben saberlo. De igual manera, no hay razón para pensar que si hay verdades morales todos deben conocerlas.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control.

Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason.