Quotes About Awareness

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Living in the here and now, we are awash with sensations of the present, memories of the past, and expectations and fears for the future. Our actions are not determined by any one cause; they are the fulfillment of who we are at that particular moment. After that moment passes, we continue to evolve, to change, and our memories of that moment inevitably change with us as we live with the consequences of our past actions, consequences we were unaware of at the time.

Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can't eat money.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun.

Bir manda bile Kafr El Teen'deki insanlardan çok daha ak?ll?d?r.

A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?

Setiap orang akan mati, Firdaus. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati." "Kau harus lebih keras dari hidup itu, Firdaus. Hidup itu amat keras. Yang hanya hidup ialah orang-orang lebih keras dari hidup itu sendiri." "Hidup adalah ular. Keduanya sama, Firdaus. Bila ular itu menyadari kau bukan ular dia akan menggigitmu. Dan bila hidup itu tahu kau tidak punya sengatan, ia akan menghancurkanmu.

Yes, Fouada, there's another wall in your head, one you were not born with, but which day by day was erected out of long silence.

I had believed that my homeland was the whole world, just as when I was a child I believed that our street was the whole homeland. As I grew up so the street grew smaller. But when my being reached out beyond the homeland, the earth shrank and new feelings, that I was larger than before, filled me.

Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu.

You cannot ban books. People can find them".

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!

When we "pass by" others and "notice them not," a degree of deprivation occurs. (Mormon 8:39.)

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

Ah, you begin to acquire wisdom,' said Sprag. 'Irritation is one of the first signs.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.