Quotes About Awareness

Human sensibility is our only channel to the universe. If the capacity of that channel can be increased, knowledge of the universe will expand accordingly.

it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

He had been seen by another. He had become a part of the other's world, and therefore no longer in complete control of his own. The eye was another kind of cage. When it saw you the lid came down, and you were trapped.

What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.

But the real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

Aware of it or not, each of us is involved in the grand enterprise of evolution. The new information being generated in each of our lives contributes inevitably to the ever-increasing complexity and richness of the universe. Our key choice is whether to become aware of and take responsibility for the power of our intentionality.

Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves" (George Meredith, ORF)

To begin to think is the beginning of disgust of the world.

I had been shocked by the findings of the polls, and several newspaper reports, that a large number of voters didn't know who I was.

I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could not be seen, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them.

The amplification of our lives by technology grants us a power over the natural world which we can no longer afford to use. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live as if there were no tomorrow.

The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

Sheep farming in this country is a slow-burning ecological disaster, which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution. Yet scarcely anyone seems to have noticed.

We are pressed, pressed on each other,We will be told at onceOf anything that happens

There are things We live among 'and to see them Is to know ourselves'.

I think always about the thing in which we are. Among the things in it is force, power. It is not enough to say that we like it or that we do not like it. It is here, we must first talk about it. We are not shoppers—or we are not first of all shoppers; it is not enough to say that we like or we do not like—

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.