Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps it is a very good thing that we cannot wholly rule our minds and that they force on us ideas and images which we would ignobly prefer to dismiss; thus truth makes its way in spite of egotism and unconsciousness.

With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong man; by means of his awareness of how impossible it is to live, he raises himself precisely to a higher possibility of living, to an endurance which is more sure of itself because it believes it has nothing more to lose. From his weakness he was able to create a strength; from his despair, an acquiescence; from his acquiescence, a hope...

But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in that fashion, he did not know that it is possible to think better, more accurately, more clearly.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can't be loved when the lights are off.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

Don't judge me by first impression, You will surprise onward.

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

The better you look, the more you see.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.