Quotes About Awareness

So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you're thinking and pay attention to what you're feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you'll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it. Will I judge you? Of course not! But I will observe.

All my life I have been surrounded by things I'd rather not know too much about, so I have come to feel that truth made naked without purpose is really a wanton.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.

We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn't have the good of our community at heart.

They have got a con game going on, a political con game, and you and I are in the middle. It's time for you and me to wake up and start looking at it like it is, and trying to understand it like it is; and then we can deal with it like it is.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.

No one is exploited economically as thoroughly as you and I, because in most countries where people are exploited they know it. You and I are in this country being exploited and sometimes we don't know it.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

I knew my son was mortal.

What do you mean by wu-wo?' you asked. 'It's like no self. No I. Non-existence,' I answered. 'My body is here, but I don't feel I am here, right now. I don't feel my existence in this environment.

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinize his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

No matter how hard I listened, there was never any sign of someone living under the floor, and yet this silence made me all the more conscious of his existence.

When I closed my eyes, the world was filled with sound.

in reserve for the most important thing: the present.

La conciencia es un fenómeno en medio de un océano de fenómenos que escapan a su control, de manera que no creo que podamos ejercer una completa supervisión de todo lo que pasa por nuestra mente.

No one actually witnessed the first numbers come into being-when we first became aware of them, they'd already been around for a long time.

Hur tomt ett hjärta än är försöker det ändå förnimma något.

När jag blundade lyckades jag få en starkare medvetenhet om tomrummet som uppstått i min kropp. Det var fyllt av fullständigt genomskinligt vatten och inte det minsta lilla minnesfragment fanns kvar där. Hans händer rörde idogt om i det vattnet, men det enda som kom upp var små bubblor. Bubblor som genast sprack alldeles ljudlöst.

In years past, I had carefully studied the stems, leaves, and branches and had read the tags that identified the different varieties, but I realized now that I was already unable to remember what this thing called a rose had looked like.