Quotes about Awareness

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

When the commonplace We must all die transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness I must die-- and soon, then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

Who knows that about anybody?

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.