Quotes About Awareness

We have to engage in a quest to discover what the self is; we have to walk the road of self-discovery. I believe that road must be a spiritual road.

Carl Jung, who talked about the "collective unconscious," but many others have developed similar ideas. The concept is that a group of people—even humanity as a whole—develop a collective state of consciousness that affects all people who are part of the group.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.

I was ever mindful not to allow open-mindedness to become gullibility nor to allow skepticism to become cynicism.

A part of growing up through a violent event like this is that the veil is pulled away and you are suddenly able to see the suffering in the eyes of other people.

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

But don't think for a moment I don't know what you're up to. And I won't always be so easily manipulated." "Ma-nip-u-lated." Peter scowled. "I do not know what this means." Her chin thrust out. "Oh, yes you do.

There was nothing like staring down the barrel of a suspected cyberweapon to clear the fog in your mind.

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

My bad foot's a long way from my brain.

My own ignorance shames me.

If I could do it over, I would have at least learned their names.

Probably hurts him to walk at all, and he couldn't really go faster, not without tripping himself. He's showing sense. This ought to make a big difference." I felt stung. I'd been hurting him, and I didn't know.

Everyone absolutely knows what a strawberry tastes like, even if you are allergic to them. Everyone absolutely knows what the toilet flushing sounds like. Everyone absolutely scratches their mosquito bites. And I know that I was absolutely ready to die. This wasn't a cry for help. I didn't want to be saved. I was ready to call it quits. Done. Terminado.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

The alimentary canal is thirty-two feet long. You control only the first three inches of it. Control it well.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that its quite conscious.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

How wrong people always were when they said: "It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way." No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.