Quotes About Awareness

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.

You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.