Quotes About Awareness

Why had God created man's face so that he might not see it himself? 'Suppose you could see your own face, would you lose your mind? Would you become incapable of acting?' Most probably man had evolved in such a way that he could not see his own face. Maybe dragonflies and praying mantises could see their own faces.

Tu eÈ™ti singurul care nu-È›i vezi propria fa??. ÎÈ›i atingi zilnic figura convins fiind c? imaginea reflectat? ar fi cea pe care o vezi direct. Ky?ko r?mase un timp pe gânduri, întrebându-se ce sens o avea oare faptul c? Dumnezeu i-a f?cut pe oameni astfel încât s? nu-È™i poat? vedea chipul.

In fondo, per 'aprire gli occhi', basta vivere a lungo.»

The guru is in you.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

No matter where you go, there you are

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Do you understand what I have not said and what you have not heard in this room that does not exist?

Yet despite the plethora of articles, books, films, and warning from scientists and even the military saying that global warming is the single biggest threat to the security of mankind—governments, businesses, and you and I continue to refuse to take meaningful steps to reverse the problem.

viewer has to be hit on the head with the same ad seven or eight times before it begins to register.

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.

you're lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You're lucky that you're happy, that you know how to be happy, that you're a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.

My evidence—such as it is—is almost always intimate. I feel this—do you? I'm struck by this thought—are you?

The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit.

Great care was taken at all times to protect me from reality. They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.

But equally you can't fight for a freedom you've forgotten how to identify.

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineering of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark. Azide Smith, How to be Both

I think I was strange to my mother and to my father, a changeling belonging to neither one of them, and although this is of course true of all children, in the end—we are not our parents and they are not us—my father's children would have come to this knowledge with a certain slowness, over years...whereas I was born knowing it, I have always known it, it is a truth stamped all over my face

I could see what everyone was feeling, but I was not with them and could not feel it. "You