Quotes About Awareness

You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.

prickling of the skin, sixth and seventh senses ringing dully like psychic tinnitus.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we" -Railsea by China Mieville

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.

The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Take a second look... It costs you nothing.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker's mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

The eye is not harmed by sleep.

This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.