Quotes About Awareness

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.

Mind the time when you would be lying before your family members, and there would be no physician to stop it (death), and no friend to benefit you.

Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.

People in this world are like travelers whose journey is going on though they are asleep. ( Life's journey is going on though men may not feel it ).

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

An ignorant person will always overdo a thing or neglect it totally.

Blessed is the man who always kept the life after death in his view, who remembered the Day of Judgment through all his deeds, who led a contented life and who was happy with the lot that God had destined for him.

Surely the likeness of this world is that of a snake: it is soft to touch, and deadly poisonous. The ignorant child is distracted by it, and the one with understanding and intellect is cautious of it. So turn away from what fascinates you in it, for how little of it stays with you.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Silence is the garden of thought.

She remarks, in particular, how white people simply fail to understand how they might be complicit, unwittingly, in shoring up structures of white dominance.

However, this is by no means an argument that prevents us from recognizing the myriad ways in which Muslims are racialized.

So, for people of colour to even make it to the point where they could be considered for college admission, or employment in managerial or professional occupations, they had to overcome obstacles that white admissions tutors and employers simply did not have to face and remained unaware of.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

always looking off to the side. But that's good too. It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.

Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.