Quotes About Awareness

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

She had eyes in the back of her heart.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Sometimes when you've pulled and pushed at a problem without getting an answer, or tried to grab a too-slippery memory, if you completely dismiss the matter from consciousness, often — when it's least expected — the answer will pop up like toast from the depths of your unconscious toaster. I do it all the time. In fact, that may be why some people call me Shell Scott, the Unconscious Detective.

Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in a million years.

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?