Quotes About Awareness

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

A sleeping cat is ever alert.

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The map is not the territory.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

All knowledge is worth having