Quotes About Awareness

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

Whatever is happening at this moment, that is your life. The future is not your life; it never arrives. What is actually here is always only this moment.

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There

You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that.

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

The stunning beauty of the truth lies beyond the veil of habits.

It's hard to sit on the floor and change your socks without looking as though you're sitting on the floor changing your socks

I appreciate not being interrupted in the middle of thinking about nothing.

our bodies often give us electric shocks, sometimes to the tune of dozens a day. It's not dangerous. We are electric after all, which is hard to remember because inside we are so wet. I breathe in and out, thinking we are really machines, fleshy machines, oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. Why am I not aware of this more often, us being such miracles, so well put together? Alive!

Being cautious is new territory; my specialty was leaping, not looking. These days I pay attention. You can stumble uphill as easily as down. Ice comes in smooth and corrugated. Plastic bags are slippery underfoot. A big dog can knock you to your knees.

Tai Chi experts, like figures on a marvelous clock, who seem in their slow-motion way to be untelling time.

You can appreciate things at four in the morning that would go right past you during the day.

You call yourselves 'realists', but you remain strangers to reality and blind to its totality, dreamless sleepers wandering aimlessly in search of life's true meaning and purpose which lie buried among the ruins of your own greatest longings.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it.

Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man's unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.