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Awareness Quotes
"Life has it woes so learn to be on your toes, be alert."
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"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."
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"A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes."
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"The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all."
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"Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of what we think we are, but in fact are not, puts a stop, for a moment, to the Manichean charade. If we renew, until they become a continuity, these moments of the knowledge of what we are not, we may find ourselves, all of a sudden, knowing who in fact we are."
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"Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality."
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"Only you can see what your mind is prepared to see."
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"Humans are supposed to evaluate their lives."
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"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."
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"We tend to look only on one side of God's blessing, without noticing the other side of the coin."
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"Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led."
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"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."
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"Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and abusrd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death."
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"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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"Awareness of our lost youth and charged with foreknowledge of our fate is terribly burdensome. Nonetheless, awareness of inexorable forward march of time and comprehension of our transience is a key component of our humanness. Awareness of time serves as a constant jab in our flank. It shapes our sense of being and toys with our mental equilibrium."
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"Remember:It's all in your head. all of it.If you don't like the story, change it.If the people around don't accept your new story; change them."
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"You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version."
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"To have something does not mean to understand it."
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"Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
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"There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before."
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"If you give a five thousand dollar diamond ring to a two year old child, sooner or later, that child is going to lose the treasure. Even though you could have meant well, yet the child would misplace the diamond. It is obvious because that child doesn't know the value of a diamond ring."
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"Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world."
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"We live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories..."
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"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"
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"There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things."
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"If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake."
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"Your environment should be your time marker."
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