Quotes About Awareness

POMPIERUL: Hai s? v? zic alta. CocoÅŸul. "într-o bun? zi, un cocoÅŸ a vrut s? fac? pe câinele. Numai c? n-a avut noroc, a fost imediat recunoscut. DOAMNA SMITH: Da, dar câinele care a vrut s? fac? pe cocoÅŸul n-a fost recunoscut niciodat?.

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water

Man in fact is petty: the problem of death is a human problem. A cow doesn't think about death. A cow isn't petty

Ce matin, quand tu t'es regardé dans la glace tu ne t'es pas vu. C'est parce que je n'étais pas encore là. (IX, 59)

Dans la vie, il faut regarder par la fenêtre. (XI, 61)

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.

The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

the Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.

The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background.

I learned to lose myself so effortlessly in the breathing that I sometimes had the feeling that I myself was not breathing but—strange as this may sound—being breathed.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

only the truly detached can understand what is meant by "detachment"

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Who wants to see life as it is, if they can help it?

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

I mean supposing we—the self-satisfied, successful members of society—are responsible for the injustice visited upon the heads of our less fortunate "brothers-in­Christ" because of our shameful indifference to it. We see misery all around us and we do not care. We do nothing to prevent it. Are we not then, in part at least, responsible for it? Have you ever thought of that?

Learning in the moment is difficult. This difficulty occurs because many of the opportunities for learning in counselling and therapy groups are missed as group leaders do not notice what is occurring. A key challenge in group leadership is to notice the significance of what is or what is not being said in a group.

It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.

It's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

what had appeared accidental to me in the past, now often seemed to bear the imprint of supernatural intent. Once you see it you can't unsee it: the supernatural is not supernatural; the ordinary world is suffused with the miraculous. Here

You cannot know yourself alone, any more than you can see your own face without a mirror.

Before you lose things, you don't really know you can lose them,