Quotes About Awareness

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

Modern-day consumer awareness has reached such staggering levels that consumers get to know everything about a certain product and the corporation producing it. If consumers are not informed the same minute about any changes or alterations, they may never purchase your product again.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Hunger also changes the world—when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Knowledge Gives You Power.

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true.

This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the "jitters." The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous—pull yourself up short and say, "What is there here and now that I should respond to? That I can do something about?

I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.