#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.”

“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

“I like to see the people awake and alert.”

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”

“It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.”

“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.”

“I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.”

“The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.”

“Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.”

“He does not weep who does not see.”

“Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”

“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

“Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.”

“And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.”

“The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.”

“The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.”

“We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.”

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

“Stand guard at the portal of your mind.”

“Close both eyes to see with the other eye.”

“Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?”

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”

“If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.”

“No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.”

“We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction”

“Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.”