Quotes About Awareness

Understand that being able to say, 'I don't know what to do with my life' is an incredible privilege that 99% of the rest of the world will never enjoy.

It is my sincere belief that our dissatisfaction in life is directly proportional to the magnitude of disagreement between our interpretation of reality and reality itself.

Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn't know it yet.

Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.

Walter suddenly became aware of a strange chill seeping into his lower body.

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it.

Als brauchte irgendeine Erscheinung der Natur unser Lob, unsre Aufmerksamkeit, ja, auch nur unsre Anwesenheit.

Plötzlich habe er denken können, sagt er, was er nie für möglich gehalten: daß er die Blume des Glücks überall pflücken solle, wo sie sich ihm biete.

Indem wir die Gegenwart gewahr werden, ist sie schon vorüber, das Bewußtsein des Genusses liegt immer in der Erinnerung.

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.

she said that life was too precious to cast away; that even the foulest and meanest expression of life was precious, full of grandeur and inestimable beauty, although we are often too blind to recognize it.

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

Your thought will be as brilliant as the brilliancy you think into your thought, and how much brilliancy you will think into your thought will depend upon how high your realization of brilliancy happens to be at the time. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

Also zahle ich dem Taxifahrer seinen Fahrpreis und gebe ihm noch ein dickes Trinkgeld, damit er in Zukunft weiß, wer der Feind ist.

Es gibt so Momente, in denen ich alles genau verstehe, [...] und dann plötzlich entgleitet mir wieder alles.

Das ist natürlich etwas schwierig zu erklären, aber es ist ein bisschen so, als finde man seinen Platz in der Welt. Es ist kein Sog mehr, kein Ohnmächtigwerden angesichts des Lebens, das neben einem so abläuft, sondern ein Stillsein. Ja, genau das ist es: Ein Stillsein. Die Stille.

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

A veces se ve algo cien, mil veces, antes de verlo de verdad por primera vez.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

The good we advocate is not to never judge anybody or anything. The good, rather, is to carefully and reasonably judge (weigh, appraise, discern and perhaps appropriately critique) all things in life – but always with an awareness of one's own fallibility, openness to learning and an interest in all moving closer to the truth.

Holding our breath or breathing shallowly always stops us from feeling. And to heal anything, we have to feel it. So breathe mindfully whenever possible. I have the word breathe posted in strategic places throughout my home and office.