Quotes About Awareness

I would imagine myself to be an empty vessel existing only to receive. As fully as possible. Without judgment.

Compassionate emptiness. To me that meant a state of nonjudgmental receiving.

We can see for ourselves how beautiful we both are.

The first rule of knife fighting," said Nick, "is—don't.

Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was much, if any, range of intellect beyond his own. But he forced himself to consider now the possibility that there might be as large a range above him as he knew to be below him—and

they're blinded by the limited focus of their attitudes toward time and history. They only look as far as their own lifetime. No, they don't even look that far. They only look at how things are for their own generation.

Death and horror are always near us. The challenge is to get on with our lives and be happy when we can always see them out of the corner of our eye, blurred, but still recognisable in the background.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

Positive thinking does not mean trying to create something that is not there. Real positive thinking acknowledges that good already exists — indeed it is all that exists.

Always remember lost, so that you don't take for granted found.

Don't say it's all going to be good again someday. It's still good now — if you really look.

The change always comes about mid-August, and it always catches me by surprise. I mean the day when I know that summer is fraying at the edges, that September isn't far off and fall is just over the hill or up the valley.

...the world reveals itself in its true dimensions in the Autumn...

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

You should always count aloud the number of times you strike the shuttle-cock, and you will be surprised to find how interesting the game begins to grow as your number mounts up, and how very anxious you become at last for fear the shuttle-cock should fall. Try as much as you can not to become excited about the game, because the moment you do so you become nervous, and may sometimes miss a blow that you would not have missed had you been cool.

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. The squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it," and then the speaker shifted to another tree farther off and reiterated his assertions, and his mate at a distance confirmed them; and now I heard a suppressed chuckle from a red squirrel that heard the last remark, but had kept silent and invisible all the while.