Awareness Quotes

“Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.”

“Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.”

“The eye of prudence may never shut.”

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”

“The day is conscious of itself.”

“Listen to presences inside poems.”

“Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

“Look out! Behind you!”

“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”

“New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.”

“Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?”

“Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.”

“Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.”

“When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.”

“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.”

“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

“I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.”

“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.”

“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”

“If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.”

“If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.”

“People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.”

“To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.”

“That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.”