Quotes about Awareness

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

What I was seeking, with resolute determination, was to live more intensely my own life, as against what I knew would be the adverse judgment of the world. It was in the most real seasons that the Real Presence came, and I was aware that I was immersed in the infinite ocean of God.

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.