Quotes about Awareness

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

As for the person who is not impelled to give thanks for the procession of the stars, the alternation of day and night, the regular succession of the seasons, and the fruits which are produced for our enjoyment--how can such a person be counted as human at all?

Just because there's a silence doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

How were we to know we were happy?

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.