Quotes About Awareness

In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

And indeed, the mind of contemporary man, of whatever level of intellectuality, is only able to take cognizance of the world by means of data which, whenever accidentally or intentionally activated, arouse in him all sorts of fantastic impulses.

What you took as yourself begins to look like a little prison-house far away in the valley beneath you.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace.

Every one of those unfortunates [human beings] during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognisant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognisance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallised in them that has swallowed up the whole of their Essence, and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it.

Se io è presente in me non contano più né Dio né diavolo.

I teach that when it rains the pavement gets wet.

There are two kinds of suffering - conscious and unconscious. Only a fool suffers unconsciously.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

La mélancolie est une maladie qui consiste à voir les choses comme elles sont.

Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul.

I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

Vad är det jag inte vet om mig själv Sannolikt nästan allt Var därför inte rädd

Hayallerimizin yeryüzüne ancak bize nanik yap?p a?z?m?za bir parmak bal, a?ulu bal gibi bir ?ey çalacak kadar bir zaman dilimi için indi?ini kesin olarak anlam??t?m.

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.