Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps it is not correct to say that she read it, for unfortunately the number of people who actually read magazines, papers or even books is very small indeed.

This is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Category: Inner-space fiction For there is never anywhere to go but in.

it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia

To hold in one's mind that a central transforming force is always at work in the world - the force of evolution itself - enables one to see that a person may be learning while not knowing he is doing so.

We sleep our lives away.

No one does anything to me, I do it to myself.

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brain-washed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes. There is nothing much we can do about this except to remember that it is so. Every one of us is part of the great comforting illusions, and part illusions, which every society uses to keep up its confidence in itself. These

Secondo me, a farti ricordare qualcosa, di importante o meno, è il fatto che in quel momento eri particolarmente vigile, attento. Per la maggior parte del tempo viviamo in una sorta di trance, non facciamo caso a niente.

After all, this situation, a similar one, is bound to roll around again, in a different context, a different history. Everything does. And the next time, will we (humankind) recognise it and do better?

Die Zeit nimmt auf niemanden Rücksicht, ob es uns nun gefällt oder nicht.

Algunos no saben distinguir el bien del mal ni siquiera cuando se les muestra.

Why am I so ungrateful when I suffer so little compared to other women?

I wish I hadn't become so conscious of everything. Once I wouldn't have noticed: now every conversation, every encounter with a person seems like crossing a mined field; and why can't I accept that one's closest friends at moments stick a knife in, deep, between the ribs?

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different... from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

I had to say to her that it isn't just men, and it isn't just men "like that.

Both of us had grown up believing that being beaten is normal, that being backhanded is ordinary, that being called names is a regular part of life. That everyone does it, that they just don't talk about it in public.

He didn't consciously bring Brub to memory. It was one of those minnows of thought, darting through the unruffled pond of his thinking.

There were always eyes. A little tailor on his way home from a movie. A waitress in a drive-in. A butcher-boy on a bicycle. A room clerk with a wet pointed nose. A detective's wife who was alert, too alert. Whose eyes saw too much. There were always eyes but they didn't see. He had proved it.

Self-knowledge is not sold on the Rialto. And if it were, few people would buy.