Quotes About Awareness

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.

Or maybe her smile has nothing to do with me, and I'm not really the center of the universe. Unlikely, but possible.

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero!

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever said anything really important in my entire life -- there's a lack of words for the most important things anyway. (I must make a list of missing words -- top of it I'll put a verb that means something in between "I sense" and "I see.")

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?

Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.

We have a view of the world, but Animals have a sense of the world, do you see?

Ludzie my?l?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? zwierz?ta, ni? rosliny, a tym bardziej - ni? rzeczy. Zwierzeta przeczuwaj?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? ro?liny i rzeczy. Ro?liny ?ni?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? rzeczy. A rzeczy trwaj?, i to trwanie jest bardziej ?yciem ni? cokolwiek innego.

A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist.

Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world. And some of these have so honed that inner sight that they can even tell where a holy spark has fallen, notice its glow in the very place you would least expect it. The worse the place, the more fervently the spark gleams, flickers— and the warmer and purer is its light.

On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it's plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.

It occurred to me that every unjustly inflictd death deserved public exposure. Even an Insect's. A death that nobody noticed was twice as scandalous.

Držim, naime, da je ljudska psiha stvorena da nas obrani od sagledavanja istine. Da nam ne dopusti izravno sagledati mehanizam. Psiha je naš obrambeni sustav - skrbi za to da nikada ne pojmimo ono što nas okružuje. Bavi se uglavnom filtriranjem obavijesti i pored toga što su mogu?nosti našeg mozga goleme. Jer to se znanje ne bi moglo podnijeti. Svaki se pa i najmanji djeli? svijeta sastoji od patnje." str. 219.

There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.

Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.

I know the date of my own death, and that lets me feel free.

It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.