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Quotes About Awareness

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
~ Laozi
If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.
~ Gugu Mona
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
~ Oliver Sacks
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
~ Rajneesh
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
~ John Frusciante
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
~ Bill Hicks
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~ Susan Sarandon
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
~ Eglantyne Jebb
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
~ Chinua Achebe
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
~ Mary Caroline Richards
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Go to where the silence is and say something.
~ Amy Goodman
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
~ Publilius Syrus
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
~ Jean Toomer
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
~ Margaret Atwood
The mind contains all possibilities.
~ Gautama Buddha
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
~ George Santayana
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~ Dorothea Brande
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
~ Jane Addams
There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.
~ Sonia Choquette
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
All that you can imagine you already know.
~ Stephen Spender