Quotes About Awareness

My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe...

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.

Most of us walk through our daily lives as if we were asleep. We regard not what is before our eyes. We see not how we construct fantasies of our own and others' intentions without having the smallest knowledge of what we, or they, are truly about. We are all imaginists, storytellers if you will, and the pity is that none of us recognizes his sorry state.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

Song and dance are explosion and interruption, and sometimes the only way to keep up with what's happening.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

Do not fight what you can see in front of you only, assume there is a battle to fight every where you face, so when you see the battle you won't be suprise

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

In our noisy cities we tend to forget the things our ancestors knew on a gut level: that the wilderness is alive, that its whispers are there for all to hear - and to respond to.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.

So much of our world has been brutally wrested from us; we now have to say enough. No more. Perhaps if enough individuals find out what is actually going on for themselves and start doing something about it, then maybe we can stave off the fast-advancing crisis and create a beautiful. healthy, livable planet where all life flourishes and man is free to rise to greater heights.

Somehow I had become aware that elephants project their presence into an area around them, and that they have control over this, because when they didn't want to be found I could be almost on top of them and pick up nothing at all. A little more experimentation and research and it became clear what was happening.

It is about the elephants - it was they who whispered to me and taught me how to listen.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.