Quotes About Awareness

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

Everyone has a beauty, but not every one sees it

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

You hear not with the ears, but with the mind; not with the mind, but with your soul.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

To defeat the enemy, we must know him first

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

No man can think on everything;we can only be ready for everything

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

Robin had never been in love before, which is precisely how he recognized the sensation with such absolute certainty.

To admit frankly, our capacity for evil hinges on our breaking through our pseudoinnocence. So long as we preserve our one-dimensional thinking, we can cover up our deeds by pleading innocent. This antediluvian escape from conscience is no longer possible. We are responsible for the effect of our actions, and we are also responsible for becoming as aware as we can of these effects.

In late life, we can pose this question internally no matter what activity we are engaged in, whether we are quietly drinking a cup of tea, sitting in a noisy meeting, cooking a festive family dinner, or running a marathon. Our identity or self-sense at any moment can be rooted in ego or rooted in soul. It's not what we're doing but how we're doing—our state of mind—that makes the difference.

Is there any part of me that objects to my having [Core State] as a way of being in the world?

Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know.

Silence thronged the room, and he was aware of the focused scrutiny of the three people who confronted him.

There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives a little flame, always bright, always attentive to His Presence.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Walls Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about. And now I sit here and consider and despair. My brain is worn with meditating on my fate: I had outside so many things to terminate. Oh! why when they were building did I not beware! But never a sound of building, never an echo came. Out of the world, insensibly, they shut me out.

O problema do prazer estético é sempre, antes de mais nada, um problema de atenção, e um mundo de prazeres é uma promessa que se realiza só para quem sabe prestar atenção.

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