Quotes About Awareness

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

It is only the things we don't understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.

I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

But again and again I note that the individuation process is confused with the coming of the ego into consciousness and that the ego is in consequence identified with the self, which naturally produces a hopeless conceptual muddle.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.