Quotes about Awareness

Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Philosophy of religion conducted in this manner, then, celebrates humility before the divine, since the awareness of God's overwhelming priority decenters us and puts us in our proper place.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

In the good days remember also death.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

There is a great difference between identifying a problem and solving it, between wisdom and the wise life. We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.