Quotes About Awareness

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

Culture can be invisible to its natives.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.

WHEN YOU SEE HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LEFT, YOU TEND TO DO MORE WITH THE TIME YOU HAVE NOW.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

coming to terms with things as they are, with an awareness of how they have been, in order to feel, think, speak, and behave in ways that are increasingly inclusive, integrated, and balanced.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

It has been estimated that out of every million parts of information received and processed by our body, we humans only admit thirteen parts into our conscious awareness. That means we only allow ourselves to be conscious of .000013 percent of the data, of experience, known to our body. That

The process of meditation involves gradually shedding our multitude of opinions-built-upon-opinions of how things are, and becoming more and more aware of the literal, non-conceptual substratum of all our thinking—the substratum which is reality itself.

The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever

C est quand notre milieu (naturel ou culturel) commence a nous faire du mal qu on s avise de son existence, et plus il nous decouvrira ses fragilites, plus nous y aurons mal. Ainsi decouvre-t-on sa langue quand, a l etranger, on ne peut plus la parler - ou qu on avait une patrie, quand on est exile.

Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que ya ni cuenta me daba si era que siempre lo estaba sintiendo o si ya no lo podía volver a sentir aunque quisiera.

Kafka experienced it at the movies and in Yitzhak Löwy's burlesque theater. And yet he made slapstick the medium of a chilling message: We fidget not because we are alive but because we get crushed the moment we stop.

Hij dwingt zich tot het eten van zijn yoghurt, want regelmaat moet er zijn, maar halverwege ontdekt hij dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van yoghurt houdt en hij laat de rest staan.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.

Pour les gens qui vous entourent, vous n'êtes jamais là, toujours en retard ou en avance d'une seconde sur leur temps.

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

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