Quotes About Awareness

The key to every man is his thought.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.