Quotes About Awareness

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

La Conspiración Vegetal: El Hombre está ahora en guardia ante los insectos parasitarios; ante tenias, termitas, escarabajos, pero ¿ha prestado alguna atención a la posibilidad de que haya sido elegido como objetivo del ataque vegetal, señalado por la viña, el lúpulo, el enebro, la planta del tabaco, la hoja de té y el grano de café para ser destruido?

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.

Love means to learn to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many.

How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.

And who can consent at the mirror to a mere face of man?

If I had to tell what the world is for me I would take a hamster or a hedgehog or a mole and place him in a theatre seat one evening and, bringing my ear close to his humid snout, would listen to what he says about the spotlights, sounds of the music, and movements of the dance.

What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate.

By this time Miss Lamington knew a good deal about her "boss". She knew that he was thirty-six (which was "quite old" in her estimation); he lived with his mother at Beckenham and travelled to the office every day

I like you to be happy and carefree, but... but nobody ought to live in a fool's Paradise.

When you are young you are too busy with yourself - so Caroline thought - you haven't time for ordinary little things

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

She should know all there was to know - all that I knew, and, what was more important still, she should know that there was no more to know. Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination like Clementina's.

Silly people are often cruel," said Adam. "You know that yourself. People with no imagination are cruel because they don't realise what other people are suffering.

They don't understand anything," declared Mother smiling at me rather sadly. "They don't even know that there's anything to understand. They're like horses with blinkers —they just see what's in front of their noses and nothing more. I'm always terribly sorry for horses with blinkers," added Mother with a sigh.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.