Quotes About Awareness

The sensible order is being at a distance--the fulgurating attestation here and now to an inexhaustible richness.

Things are only half - opened before us, unveiled and hidden.

There are eyes at the tips of my fingers.

Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself—all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.

Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

El silencio es el verdadero crimen de lesa humanidad.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Wer sich nicht mit Politik befasst, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen wollte, bereits vollzogen.

Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.

only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.

Bliss in that age was it to be alive.' (He says) 'Why do people regard a period like this as years lost out of our lives when beyond question it is the most interesting period of them? Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?

The main thing those Americans who really knew about Vietnam knew was how little they knew.

We must always seek the good which is hidden in everything.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.

Where silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence. Man does not put silence to the test; silence puts man to the test.