Quotes About Awareness

Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Christmas ornaments, picture frames and Jeffery Epstein. Name three things that don't hang themselves.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

On the plane to Mexico City, I thought about how death shreds time. My ordinary life had vanished.

La mayoría de la gente no se fija en nada, y si se fija, no le importa.

Quantas vezes na minha vida eu estive, por assim dizer, na varanda dos fundos, e não na varanda da frente? O que será que me disseram que eu não ouvi? Que amor poderia ter existido que eu não senti?

As I continued letting my right hand know what my left hand was doing (and vice versa), I could feel the split within me begin to heal. The conscious and unconscious, the rational and intuitive, the thinking and feeling sides of my inner world began to embrace each other. In times of inner conflict, I turned to this wondrous process. It always brought clarity and insight. It always left me feeling better.

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.