Quotes about Awareness
Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.
— Virginia Woolf
There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision.
— Virginia Woolf
But for a moment I had sat on the turf somewhere high above the flow of the sea and the sound of the woods, had seen the house, the garden, and the waves breaking. The old nurse who turns the pages of the picture book had stopped and had said, 'Look. This is the truth.
— Virginia Woolf
He's read nothing, thought nothing, felt nothing, he could hear her saying in that empathic voice which carried so much farther than she knew.
— Virginia Woolf
We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.
— Virginia Woolf
How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people.
— Virginia Woolf
She stood there: she listened. She heard the names of the stars.
— Virginia Woolf
To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.
— Lao Tzu
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
— Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.
— Lao Tzu
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.
— Lao Tzu