Quotes about Awareness

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it.

Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man's unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.