Quotes About Awareness

Ambition is more intoxicating than fame; desire makes all things blossom, possession wilts them; it is better to dream your life than to live it, even if living it means dreaming it, though both less mysteriously and less vividly, in a murky and sluggish dream, like the straggling dream in the feeble awareness of ruminant creatures.

So that every fresh encounter is a sort of rectification, which brings us back to what we really did see. We have no longer any recollection of this, to such an extent does what we call remembering a person consist really in forgetting him.

When a mind has a tendency towards day-dreams, it's a mistake to shield it from them, to ration them. So long as you divert your mind from its day-dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will be the victim of all sorts of appearances because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

The need to speak prevents one not merely from listening but from seeing things, and in this case the absence of any description of my external surroundings is tantamount to a description of my internal state.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

few sometimes may know, when thousands err

Depression is good at making you think it's not even there and that you are the problem. Depression wants you to think you made a choice to be this way.

If more people understand the reality of mental illness and get disabused of the Hollywood myths about it, the stigma about getting help will diminish, and then we'll live in a healthier society.

Talking about depression is great and healthy, but that doesn't mean it's not exhausting.

Yes, there is discrimination against people with mental illness and, yes, it can be a scary thing to talk about. But the hunger to do so is there, and by being open yourself you can get that conversation out on the dance floor.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

learn to live like the wild animals

You are yourself a Sequoia. Stop and get acquainted with your brethren... It will do you good.

It's only good sense to go looking for trouble, because then at least you have your eyes open; while if you stay still, trouble will sneak up on you and pot you like a sitting bird.

Every man knows he will die; and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of sane being.

Everybody has an idea of himself which augments, aggravates, or modifies the actuality.

Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.

Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.

Take refuge in your senses, open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain when it falls slow and free... Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more.