Quotes About Awareness

Basta così. Non tutti sono al corrente di ciò che è accaduto, – la fermò egli, e la Prima Signora che era al suo fianco intervenne: – Non è il caso di preoccuparsi, e comunque ho tanto sonno che non avrei sentito nulla, – disse, coprendosi le orecchie con le maniche.

Aware of my own insignificance, I had at least managed for the time being to avoid anything that might have been considered shameful or unbecoming; yet here I was, tasting the bitterness of life to the very full.

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

If you don't remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can't cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.

Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.

You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.

I have frequently told you, and the holidays just past have convinced me, that my prime has truly begun. One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.

Everything that has happened to you happened because of thoughts impressed on your subconscious mind through belief.

Your subjective mind performs its highest functions when your objective senses are not functioning. In other words, it is that intelligence that makes itself known when the objective mind is suspended or in a sleepy, drowsy state.

the world you live in is determined largely by what goes on in your mind.

Suppose you were crossing the ocean in a supersonic jet-liner and you wandered into the cockpit. You certainly would not know how to fly the plane, but you would not find it difficult to distract the pilot and cause a problem. In the same way, your conscious mind cannot operate your body, but it can get in the way of proper operation.

the pilgrim way only focuses and intensifies our experience, which, when we were home, was diffused by distraction, responsibility, and busyness. Unless we are persons of prayer and uncommon contemplation, our daily lives routinely detour deeper thoughts and a quiet looking at the world around us.

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. THOREAU, Walden

The utterly ordinary is utterly extraordinary. It all depends on how you see things, and whether you are willing to look deeply, and live by what you see and feel and know.

Low periods are a good time to work out the techniques and ways of involving people, ways of having people begin to use critical judgments. In a movement period, it's too late after you get going to stop and do these things. People are too busy doing something else.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.

We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, potential thing I will give a name, and it will exist thereafter, and its existence will be clearly perceived. The name enables me to see it. I can call it by its name, and I can see it for what it is.

He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.