Quotes About Awareness

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

Nous ne voyons pas les choses mêmes ; nous nous bornons, le plus souvent, à lire des étiquettes collées sur elles.

Sentar-se no meio de uma fala seria lembrar que se tem corpo. Napoleão, que era psicólogo nas horas vagas, observou que se passa da tragédia à comédia pelo simples fato de se sentar.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

If there is one point, it's humanity, it's life, the richness of life. The thing is simply to be sensitive.

You have to try and stay alive in front of what you see, struggle with reality, get rid of habits and routines. You have to train yourself to look all the time, swinging between the conscious and the unconscious. In a sort of dance, I practice immediate, automatic, and intuitive drawing. I get a Normas joy from it. But the flaunting of reportage—getting into situations, "working" a subject—that is not photography.

Experience seems to come from a distance.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.

Il y a toujours des fleurs pour ceux qui veulent les voir.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

Reality always falls short of essence. Every child knows that.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.