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Quotes About Awareness

the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Is it not clear then, that consciousness of oneself is a sickness?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
To feel one's self, to be conscious of one's personality, is the lot of an eye inflamed by a cinder, or an infected finger, or a bad tooth. A healthy eye, or finger, or tooth is not felt; it is non-existent as it were. Is it not clear then, that consciousness of oneself is a sickness?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence.
~ Yiyun Li
Don't boast because you know too little," Mrs. Pang says. "Things change a lot. Within a blink a mountain flattens and a river dries up. Nobody knows who he'll become tomorrow.
~ Yiyun Li
Can a wall describe its own dimensions and texture, can a wall even sense its own existence, if not for the ball that constantly bounces off of it?
~ Yiyun Li
Our life, we realize, is not as happy as we have been taught to think.
~ Yiyun Li
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......
~ Yogananda
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
~ Yogaswami
You observe a lot by watching.
~ Yogi Berra
You can see a lot by just looking.
~ Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
~ Yogi Berra
If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.
~ Yogi Berra
You've got to be careful If you don't know where you're going, Because you might get there.
~ Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching.
~ Yogi Berra
The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn't make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.
~ Yogi Bhajan
All happiness is in the mind.
~ Yogi Bhajan
If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all.
~ Yogi Bhajan
Think that snow is falling Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on that person Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow
~ Yoko Ono
Listen to the sound of the earth turning.
~ Yoko Ono
You change the world by changing yourself.
~ Yoko Ono
Å'uvre Neige Pensez que la neige tombe. Pensez que la neige tombe partout tout le temps. Lorsque vous parlez avec quelqu'un, pensez que la neige tombe entre vous et cette personne. Cessez de converser lorsque vous pensez que la personne est recouverte de neige.
~ Yoko Ono
Humans tend to leave it until we're at the edge of the precipice before we take decisions. I'm an optimist by nature – you can't work in the environmental world if you're not. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62ebf896-ccc9-11e4-b5a5-00144feab7de.html
~ Yolanda Kakabadse