Quotes About Awareness

Indeed, market research has found that children often recognize a brand logo before they can recognize their own name.

Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.

Ir completamente sobria a una fiesta es algo nuevo para mí; nuevo y atemorizador. Veo demasiado, siento demasiado, me doy demasiada cuenta de las mentiras.

Mi-am dat imediat seama c? veniseÅŸi. Åži c?-mi dezv?luiai secretul, marele t?u secret: priveÅŸte lumea în fiecare zi ca ÅŸi cum ai vedea-o pentru întâia oar?.

Il faut du bruit pour entendre le silence .

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Ne pense plus avec ta conscience personnelle, pense avec une autre conscience, celle du monde, pense tel l'arbre qui bourgeonne, telle la pluie qui tombe.

plus je peinais, plus je prenais conscience de mon souffle, de mon timbre, de la durée des notes, de l'inflexion des phrases, des accents, des tenues, des retenues, des ornements et des appoggiatures.

Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.

Vous aviez pratiqué l'exercice requis, je m'en suis rendu compte, car, malgré votre humeur de putois, votre souplesse s'était améliorée.

Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.

When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me.

The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one's fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one's hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless.

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love—is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.

My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.

To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.

Erkenntnis] ist nur möglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.