Quotes About Awareness

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

O ser humano mal reconhece os demônios de sua criação

Keiner darf die Augen schliessen und das Leiden, dessen Anblick er sich erspart, als nicht geschehen ansehen.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...

I do not think that in those early days of September, Hitler was fully aware that he had irrevocably unleashed a world war. He had merely meant to move one step further. To be sure, he was ready to accept the risk associated with that step, just as he had been a year before during the Czech crisis; but he had prepared himself only for the risk, not really for the great war.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar. ANTONIO MACHADO

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I'd like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

I'm one of my sensations.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant. (6/20/1919)

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it and be in agreement.

What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it did, it would be people. . . Why am I worrying about this? If I think about these things, I'll stop seeing trees and plants And stop seeing the Earth For only seeing my thoughts... I'll get unhappy and stay in the dark. And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.

Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing. I know they smell just as well as I know I existed. They're things known from the outside. But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head.

Nem sempre consigo sentir o que sei que devo sentir. O meu pensamento só muito devagar atravessa o rio a nado Porque lhe pesa o fato que os homens o fizeram usar.

Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands. What science has knowledge for this? The blind man goes on his way and I don't make any more gestures. It's already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same. This is being real.