Quotes About Awareness

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

You cannot see the mountain near.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

Standing on the bare ground… all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself…. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Things are of the snake.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

What you see is what it is!