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Quotes About Awareness

Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua y recordar que el tiempo es otro río, saber que nos perdemos como el río y que los rostros pasan como el agua.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
comprendí que el incesante y vasto universo ya se apartaba de ella y que ese cambio era el primero de una serie infinita.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Os espelhos e a paternidade são abomináveis porque o multiplicam e o divulgam (o universo).
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Then I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Yo soy el único espectador de esta calle; si dejara de verla se moriría
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Secili percaktohet pergjithnje ne nje cast te percaktuar te jetes dhe ky eshte casti kur ai gjendet perballe vetvetes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Mis sueños son como la vigilia de ustedes
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I shall be the other I am without knowing it.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Orice destin, oricât de lung sau de complicat ar fi, se reduce de fapt la un unic moment: momentul în care omul înÈ›elege pentru totdeauna cine este.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Para un verdadero poeta, cada momento de la vida, cada hecho, debería ser poético, ya que profundamente lo es.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Blake wrote that if our senses did not work - if we were blind, deaf, etc. - we would see things as they are; infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Diecinueve años había vivido como quien sueña: miraba sin ver, oía sin oír, se olvidaba de todo, de casi todo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Calm Down what happens happens mostly without you.
~ Josef Albers
T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]
~ Josef Pieper
Perhaps when all the consequences of a false presupposition suddenly becomes a direct threat mean in their great terror will become aware that it is no longer possible to call back to true and effective life a truth they have allowed to become remote --- just for the sake of their bare survival.
~ Josef Pieper
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
~ Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo.
~ Joseph Brodsky
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
~ Joseph Campbell
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
~ Joseph Campbell
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.
~ Joseph Campbell
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.
~ Joseph Campbell
enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...
~ Joseph Campbell