Quotes About Awareness

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

The menu is not the meal.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.