Quotes About Awareness

Consciousness returned and when it unpacked its bags, there was suspicion in them.

I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.

The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.

it's hardly headline news that the corporate state and its media are using the latest gadget-com and gimmick-tech to dumb us down as steadily as if they were standing on a stool and pounding our brains with a frozen ham.

Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.

Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.

Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.

Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.

They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. However, Leigh-Cheri and Bernard were occupied with the nuances of an intricate dance, so let's be generous and cut them some slack.)

Meanwhile, at our present level of development, largely oblivious to our origins and our destination, we are half-asleep in frog pajamas.

Who knows what causes the human brain to split its britches. It would seem that the brain hangs so many curtains between itself and the true universe that eventually light can no longer reach it, and it molds and rots and festers in the dark.

although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

We cannot listen to the voice of God in a hurry.

The more we train ourselves to spend time with God and him alone, the more we will discover that God is with us at all times and in all places. Henri Nouwen

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.

You don't mind? Life is in the minding.

How is a juggler you can't hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all?

Mr Hodge, ignorance should be like an empty vessel waiting to be filled at the well of truth – not a cabinet of vulgar curios.