Quotes About Awareness

Gyermekkorodban, ahogy nÅ'ttél, úgy erÅ'södött benned a gyanú, hogy mindenki más be van avatva valami alapvetÅ' titokba, mely elÅ'tted zárva maradt. A többiek mind tudták, hogy mit csinálnak.

And as he feels himself falling asleep he has an insight he believes is important, which he hopes he will remember in the morning, although it is one of those thoughts that seldom survive translation to the language of daylight hours

you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

That's what I like about a well-educated man. If he contemplates the obvious long enough, he finally gets a clue.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

Everyone is vulnerable to something. The trick is to recognize your own weaknesses and blind spots so that you can come up with a way to protect them.

Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.

You know what they say about your greatest strength." "It's also your greatest weakness," she said quietly. "Right. The only defense anyone has is to be aware of both." He used his fork to spear another bite of salmon. "Play to one and guard against the other.

There was a saying about dust bunnies: by the time you see the teeth, it's too late.

When you find nothing, Morris said, it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something. Is that a Zen thing? Eve questioned. If not, it should be.

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape

We are real only by chance, and immortal without knowing it.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Les miroirs feraient bien de réfléchir un peu plus avant de renvoyer les images.

À force de ne jamais réfléchir, on a un bonheur stupide.

Die meisten Menschen leben in den Ruinen ihrer Gewohnheiten.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Sentir antes de comprender.

Il faudrait apprendre à son âme à marcher pieds nus.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

Realizing the emptiness of a spirituality -- and of a spiritual nurture -- that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.