Quotes about Awareness

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.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.