Quotes About Awareness

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

What seems to be coming at you is really coming from you

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

When the knife was busy with my life's most intimate tie, my mind was so clouded with fumes of intoxicating gas that I was not in the least aware of what a cruel thing was happening. Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she louses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with all that we are.

Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am aware, and the time of offering go by. Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

I have spent a fortune traveling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven't found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dew drop on a single blade of grass.

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!

When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.

Do not say it is morning and dismiss it with a name of yesterday

Sachish became so aware of her that his mystic trance broke. He could no longer regard her as a metaphor for a transcendental mood.

Leemos mal el mundo, y decimos luego que nos engaña.

you have lost through habit consciousness that the living bonds of society are breaking up

Lo que eres no lo ves, y lo que ves es tu sombra

You never look at these flowers; therefore they become stale to you. If you would only look into them, then your reading and writing would go to the winds." The Devotee

Le illusioni sono necessarie per le menti semplici, e la maggioranza delle persone è semplice. Ecco perché ovunque nel mondo abbiamo creato delle divinità. Gli uomini sono fin troppo consapevoli delle loro debolezze.

Si tu fermes la porte à toutes les erreurs, la vérité restera dehors

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.