Quotes About Awareness

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

You cannot know about it unless you have it.

Ahora: una palabra curiosa para expresar todo un mundo y toda una vida

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. Still, I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there.

You are aware of the result, not the process.

As we listen, truly hearing, our understanding of the world changes from a self-centered focus to an other-oriented openness—we come to understand how we are connected

William James, in his "Talks to Teachers," derided that "ceaseless frenzy" in which we always feel that we "should be doing something else." The ceaseless frenzy, the race through life, are symptomatic of the numbing of spirituality.

It's nice to have moments when I'm not thinking about me.

Clarified states of consciousness are contagious.

Air France's in-flight magazine.

A range of different types of consciousness is available to human beings. It's a kind of anomaly that postmodern Western culture has narrowed the range of that what we are encouraged to have. Maybe it's not so much a transformation we are speaking of, but an opening. It's a reclaiming.32

The warrior trains their mind to know the good and beautiful and true.

Solamente cuando entendemos que somos terminales es cuando comenzamos a tratar el tiempo con el respeto que merece.

The most spiritual activity you will engage in today is making choices.

After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.

a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.