Quotes About Awareness

Let's play a game. There is no gate – oh, you've seen it, I well know. But it is a lie. It is what your mind builds, stone by stone. For your kind love borders. Thresholds, divisions, delineations. To enter a place you believe you must leave another. But look around and you can see. There is no gate, my friend.

Ciekawo?? jest moim najwi?kszym przekle?stwem, ale ?wiadomo?? posiadania wady jeszcze jej nie usuwa.

Knowledge was no blessing; awareness was a disease that stained the entire spirit.

Indeed, his vision was failing him in all things. It was an old man's curse, he believed, to witness the horizons on all sides drawing ever closer.

The measure of the perfect theft is when the victim remains blissfully unaware that he or she has been stolen from.

Weariness awaited every unmindful soul, no matter its age, no matter its station.

She thought to resume crawling, then consciousness slipped away again.

There's no difference,' he said, 'between speaking aloud or in one's own head – either way, no-one listens.

Bravado usually is ignorance,' Bottle snapped back.

But compassion was engagement, a mindfulness beyond that of mere witness

If all honest observation ends up sounding critical, is it the honesty you then reject, or the act of observation?

Returning to… sanity? Perhaps. But Heboric Ghost Hands had no firm grasp of what sanity was, what it looked like, felt like, smelled like. It might be that he had never known. – TB 486

The truth may hide at your feet. The truth may lie coiled in high grasses. But it still has claws, it still has fangs. Be careful, Captain, where you step.

A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

Look, universal consciousness only works when everybody's on the same page. But no one's ever on the same page. So instead you've got all these fragmented slices of consciousness, each one stuffed into this tiny brain, none of them capable of even recognizing any other consciousness as being just as legitimate as their own, and so the whole thing turns into this giant ego-wank.

it is knowledge that makes one aware of his or her own chains.' 'Knowledge only makes the eyes see what was there all along

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.

from a burning tenement block spread an acrid haze that made breathing tortured. They rode through the silent aftermath of slaughter, when the rage has passed and awareness returns with shock and shame. The moment was a single indrawn breath in what Fiddler knew would be an ever-burgeoning wildfire.

It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.

We are rocked in the tumult, and the awareness of one's own ignorance is a smothering cloak that proves poor armour.

Out of your depth, Captain? Don't worry, every damn person here's out of their depth. Some know it, some don't. It's the ones who don't you got to worry about. Start with what's right in front of you and forget the rest for now. It'll show up in its own time.

Beware the drunkard's wisdom.

Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I'll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his own ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths.

The truth of futility was the hardest truth of all, and for those clear-eyed enough to see it, there was no escape.