Quotes About Awareness

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX A Wild Boar was engaged in whetting his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a Fox came by and, seeing what he was at, said to him, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out to-day, and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger I shall need to use my tusks. There'll be no time to sharpen them then.

Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.

In the good days remember also death.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying attention.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think. I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone. But. I have.

I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind closed eyelids.

La gente si accorge solo di quando te ne vai; se resti non se ne accorgono. E' come quando si sente davvero un ronzio continuo solo dopo che ha smesso.

When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. "Plastic doesn't cycle." She shrugged off her coat. "Right? We recycle it, but it can't do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it's everywhere!" she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.