Quotes about Awareness

It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.

They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.

The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

I was always conscious of sounds in nature which my ears could never hear,—that I caught but the prelude to a strain. She always retreats as I advance. Away behind and behind is she and her meaning. Will not this faith and expectation make to itself ears at length?

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire- thinner than the paper on which it is printed- then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them. Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.

We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!