Quotes About Awareness

Any human being on the planet today can take off their shoes and stand in the dirt and instantly know everything there is to know.

We don't know the value of darkness until we have destroyed it.

Few of us know how saturated our minds and bodies are with light. Even fewer realize how profoundly modern media poisons the soul.

What we do to our bodies with antibiotics, we do to consciousness with light.

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The truth of our existence is that it is uncertain.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Death, before erasing me from the world, erases my desire to know the world. What's the good of seeing if you can't see everything, or see forever.

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

When you find out that everything about your reality is just an illusion, it's hard not to completely shut down.

Lo sentí cercano, hay mucha gente que no es ciega y, de todos modos, no quiere ver. Quizá tomándoles la mano lo logren

People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.

Nobody notices, only you've known, you're not sick, not crazy, not angry, not sad-- It's just this, you're injured.

People feel hurt when you point out the reality that forms experience because the reality is not their emotional experience.

After it happened I was at a loss for words. Haven't you said this yourself? Haven't you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life. Eventually she stopped doing this, though she never acknowledged her slippage. And you never called her on it (why not?) and yet, you don't forget.

You put on your glasses. The trees, their bark, their leaves, even the dead ones, are more vibrant wet. Yes, and it's raining. Each moment is like this- before it can be known, categorized as similar to another thing and dismissed, it has to be experienced, it has to be seen.

Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

What we live before the light is turned off is what prevents the light from being turned off. 'The quotidian