Quotes About Awareness

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

You may wonder how I had not seen it before. I believe I had. But to see something is not the same as to acknowledge it.

How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.

But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me

Even the simplest knowledge of the names and habits of flowers or trees starts this distinguishing or individuating process, and removes us a step from total reality towards anthropocentrism.

One writes things and the implications shriek- it's like suddenly realizing one's deaf.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.

There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result.

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Tenho, com frequência, uma estranha ilusão: julgo que me tomei surda. Cuido então de fazer um ruído para saber que não é verdade. Tenho de tossir, por exemplo, para verificar que ouço normalmente. É como a mocinha japonesa que encontraram nas ruínas de Hiroshima. Estava tudo morto, e ela cantava para a sua boneca.

There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

Remember: The answers are in the questions.

When you think, I really know someone who needs to hear this, stop and think... We tend to teach each others what we need to hear ourselves.

I loathe the idea of cutting down trees. Two hundred years of shape and energy all gone in half an hour. It's revolting.

When she says "I feel like you are not even here," he says "What do you mean I'm not here? Of course I am here. Don't you see my body?

When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the question is asked then the answer is heard. When we are truly ready to receive then what we need will become available.

A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.

Darkness cannot be directly removed, but it automatically disappears when you turn on the light.