Quotes About Awareness

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.

Those who ignore financial history are condemned to repeat it.

So when all your friends are investing in a certain area, when the business pages are full of stories about a particular company, and when "everybody knows" that something is a good deal, haul up the red flags. In short, identify current conventional wisdom so that you can ignore it.

If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.

People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.

that people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.

I was little more than a child still wrapped in a soothing blanket of illusion

The devil's best defense is a person's disbelief in his existence.

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

Since I first entered this world, what awaits has always been before me. If I turn this way or that, it is still there, waiting, more patient than any human being.

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