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Awareness Quotes


"Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there, Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare."


"We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth."


"Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians."


"My charge to you and to anyone else who desire greatness is that you should not trivialize time."


"Don't try to understand consciousness. Just try to be deeply conscious and it will reveal its secret to you."


"Disparate from animals, human beings are constantly interpreting who we are. The mental rhythm of the human mind is a stream of thought that is constantly in motion. The development of conscious awareness is a lifetime process of interpreting the external world by employing the tools of observation, memory, and imagination; supplemented by rational thoughts, meditative reflections, intuition, and freelance conjure. Every day we can consciously work to alter our being or remain mentally stagnant."


"Being a keen observer, I would think to myself, who is approachable? Who is someone I'd like to know? Who is putting out welcoming vibes?"


"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."


"Everything is talking to you. If you have a listening heart, you will be able to hear it."


"To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."


"You enhance the beauty of your life by sharpening your awareness and deepening your consciousness."


"Open up your heart enables expansion of the dimensions of the conscious states."


"If you live with awareness, you will find love all around you."


"You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there."


"Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us."


"Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns."


"When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror."


"You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe."


"Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers."


"I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything."


"We often try to understand the world without understanding ourselves."


"Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth."


"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."


"It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down."


"The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes."


"Look beneath the surface, let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."


"Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality."


"A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself."


"Only you can see what your mind is prepared to see."


"Humans are supposed to evaluate their lives."


"At a Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, two of my friends and I were standing in a circle talking. A stranger approached, interrupted our little reunion, and gave each of us her card. She then began talking about herself and her business without a hint of social awareness, or care about her interruption. She even had the tactless gall to ask us for referrals. When she left our small circle, we looked at each other and laughed, "What was that?"
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