Quotes About Awareness

If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.

...the ear of the heart hears bluebirds...

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.

But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.

but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.

He sniffed the sweetness of the tawny grass, which entered his brain and set his thoughts whirling on from the particular to the universal.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say?

Era piombato nelle tenebre. E nel momento stesso in cui lo seppe, smise di sapere.

Un fantasma è l'anima d'un morto che non sa d'essere morto.

Dogs asleep in the sun often whined and barked, but they were unable to tell what they saw that made them whine and bark. He had often wondered what it was. And that was all he was, a dog asleep in the sun.

Il avait ignoré que l'amour lui était nécessaire et l'ignorait encore. Mais il en voyait les manifestations qui l'émouvaient profondément.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

consciousness

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

And, in a way, we're all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we're only conscious of a single moment.

there is no security in ignorance.

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.