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Quotes About Awareness

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
~ Gaylord Nelson
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
~ Robert Frost
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
~ Charles Tart
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
~ Terence McKenna
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
~ Oscar Wilde
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
~ Toni Morrison
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
~ David Hackworth
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
~ Carl Jung
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
~ Richard Widmark
It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.
~ Charlotte Selver
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.
~ Huineng
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
~ Luther Standing Bear
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
~ Chief Seattle