Quotes About Awareness

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

All knowledge hurts.

A day doesn't pass that I'm not surprised.

The intellectuals of this era are simply blind to the reality of consciousness. Consciousness is who we are, how we think, and how we know.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

There 's music in all things, if men had ears:

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

I can recognize any one by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal. [at the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley, according to E.J. Trelawny]

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.

If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

What the big print on the front giveth, the little print on the back taketh away!" If you want to be a successful negotiator, force yourself to read everything carefully. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with hiding something that's important to you but likely to be unacceptable to the other side in an inconspicuous place. If it's spotted and raised by the other side, discuss it normally; never plead guilty to using trickery.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

You can lead a man to wisdom, but you cannot make him think.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.