Quotes About Awareness

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

With so many marvels around you, did you stop seeing some of them?

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself within.

I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me.

Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn't know about.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself

she thought how funny that the first thing you didn't need was the words you said.

She looked at the red-brown of his darkened skin and then she looked at herself, her own pale skin. It was shocking really, she thought, what all entailed the difference between her and him, as if a whole new person could be made from the sum of that difference.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. (quoted in Incognito )

Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.

Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

We should grow like a tree that likewise does not know its law. We tie ourselves up with intentions, not mindful of the fact that intention is the limitation, yes, the exclusion of life.

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small concern of the world, and my ideas - a subjective confession.

Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone

Nothing so promotes the growth of consciousness as [the] inner confrontation of opposites.