Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes a whispered word, or a single image or glimpse of humanity, can be a powerful motivation for looking deeper into the world.

I told him to tell the truth,' Mr. Fang said. 'It is important to know the truth about the Cultural Revolution. Foreigners must be told. We must face the facts. It was a disaster ...

The next time you clap on your expensive Bose headphones or fire up your car stereo, you had to consider that they were put together a hundred yards from Arizona by someone living in a hut in the Sonoran Desert

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travellers don't know where they're going.

I was aware that in handing these pictures out I was breaking the law. But what the hell. They had nuisance value. They made the Tibetans happy.

Reading 1984 might get people thinking about it,' I said.

the subject of boredom.

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

One of my luckiest instincts lay in being able to tell when I was happy—at the time, not afterwards. Most people don't realize until long afterwards that they have passed through a period of happiness. Their enjoyment takes the form of reminiscence, and it is always tinged with regret that they had not known at the time how happy they were. But I knew, and my memory (of bad times too) was detailed and intense.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.

discernment asks that we constantly be open, both to God's gentle nudges and to the many opportunities for grace that are constantly being presented.

People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.

Watch the little things in life, the ones you have control over. Keep your eyes glued to the peas and every speck of dust on the floor.

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

I am still alive, Waking, lonely.

It's because it's easy for you to consent that I want from you what it will be impossible for you to consent to, even if you agree ahead of time, even if you say yes now and imagine yourself capable of submitting. You won't be able not to revolt. Your submission will be obtained in spite of you, not only for the inimitable pleasure that I and others will derive from it, but also so that you will be made aware of what has been done to you." O

Who pities those who wait? They are easily recognized: by their gentleness, by their falsely attentive looks—attentive, yes, but to something other than what they are looking at—by their absentmindedness.

Él era demasiado joven para saber el impudor que hay en la inmovilidad y el silencio.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.