Quotes About Awareness

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

invention inevitably followed a four-step sequence: Awareness of an unfulfilled need; Recognition of something contradictory or absent in existing attempts to meet the need, which Usher called an "incomplete pattern"; An all-at-once insight about that pattern; and A process of "critical revision" during which the insight is tested, refined, and perfected.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Paranoia means having all the facts.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks.

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks. For them, even an instant's preoccupation could be fatal. Both body and mind must be free to flow and to respond to whatever the situation demands.

We must be careful not to create our own fetters or our own inflexibility.

Your real intent should be not to die with weapons uselessly worn at your side.

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

He reads much;He is a great observer, and he looksQuite through the deeds of men.