Quotes About Awareness

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.