Quotes About Awareness

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

So we, in thoughtless play, twist the first gleaming and silky threads of the fatal cord which will cling about our necks, fastened beyond hope of release, as long as our lives shall last!

For the most part people are cruel, cruel if only from lack of thought.

Daily bread," muttered the handsome girl. "It's main and fine what He do gie us, niver a bit o' wheat-loaf mayhap for weeks and weeks togither 1" But she muttered it under her breath, and she did not dare let him hear it. I heard it; but then dogs hear and see a great many things to which men, in their arrogance and their stupidity, arc deaf and blind.

us were able to do so. Our eating may be out of control

The rest who does not know?

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?

Ser capaz de experimentar las representaciones como ídolos, y además ser capaz de ejecutar conscientemente el acto de figuración y de experimentarlas como participadas: eso es la imaginación.

For inconsistent and slovenly thought can abide indefinitely in error without any feeling of discomfort.

The helping hand is simply a sustained acceptance by the reader of the relation assumed by physical science to subsist between human consciousness on the one hand and, on the other, the familiar world of which that consciousness is aware.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from

I think that anyone who eats meat should visit a slaughterhouse at least once in their life, just to see what goes on. It's a bloody, filthy, putrid f**king business.

But one of the many problems with being an alcoholic is that when people tell you how bad you are when you're drunk, you're usually drunk. So you just keep getting drunk.

The way I was boozing was a kind of suicide. It was only gonna be a matter of time.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there'd be a rash of kindergarten suicides.

Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond) our faculties of perception? Because of this, at any given moment, we are only aware of a small fraction of what is happening within or around us. Our perceptual range expands

Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.

Thoughts are just as real as words.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.