Quotes About Awareness

Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Code of the Grunt: Do not fuck with Buddha. He may be just another gook but he knows all about payback. When you catch a break in a firefight consider it a wakeup call. Buddha is reminding you that close counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.

Someone who doesn't know history, he says, is "in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify.

understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But

The two first facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. . . . [A]ll

There are, he claims, two kinds of people in the world: those who are dogmatic and know it, and those who are dogmatic and don't know it.

In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

My hope is that this book will help us all make those decisions with more facts than emotions, and more awareness than fear.

As the late climate scientist Jerry Mahlman used to say, "There is no need to exaggerate the problem of climate change; it is bad enough as it is.

I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.

In die laaste paar dekades van die negentiende eeu het Henry James begin met die skep van 'n soort sentrale intelligensie, dit wil sê, die verhaal word aangebied uit die bewussyn

Antes que comece a fazer perguntas e a abrir portas que ficariam melhor se permanecessem fechadas, talvez deva pensar que talvez não goste muito do que acabará descobrindo.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

He couldn't see her face of course but he knew she was smiling.

We stumble into our graves knowing so well how to have done better.

I want to be there to remind them I haven't got a tongue to stick into the cheek I haven't got either.

He knew now that he had never been really happy in his whole life. There had been times when he had thought he was happy but none of them were like this.

Death is sleep without knowledge of the pleasure of life.

No matter how far you are separated from other people if you have an idea of time why then you are in the same world with them you are part of them but if you lose time the others go on ahead of you and you are left alone hanging in air lost to everything forever.