Awareness Quotes

“People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.”
― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

“The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock—more than a maple—universe.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“Intense and passionate love can be very demanding or exhausting, for it depends on vulnerability, empathy, and emotional investment to navigate the turbulent waters with awareness. (Another empty room)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall.”
― Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez, Zori 2ª Parte

“Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

“Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.

If you’d live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.”
― Charles Boardman Hawes

“To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Consciousness, which is the" reflective "element of Norman's conceptual brain, handles the" higher "functions at the metaphorical tip of the very top of that complicated organ. Because consciousness pays a lot of attention to your thoughts, you tend to identify it with cognition. However, if you try to figure out exactly how you run your business or care for your family, you soon realize that you can't grasp that process just by thinking about it. As Norman puts it," Consciousness also has a qualitative, sensory feel. If I say, 'I'm afraid,' it's not just my mind talking. My stomach also knots up.”
― Winifred Gallagher

“Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“World is made in your image.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Happiness shared is happiness sacred, happiness hoarded is happiness wasted.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“What's needed is awareness not caution,
Caution causes anxiety, awareness ascension.
Keep caution lowest, and awareness fullest,
Awareness guides behavior towards illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me--the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics.

I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere where I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. We also write to heighten our awareness of life.

We write to lure, enchant, and to console others. We write to serenade. We write to taste life twice, once in the moment and once in retrospection. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.

We write to teach ourselves to speak to others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled or restricted or lonely.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I'm sorry'--like 'I love you'--like many phrases--means more than one thing, even on its surface. So people get confused what they're saying and what they're hearing when the words 'I'm sorry' are spoken...

But even when you're clear which kind of 'sorry' is in play, the words of an apology only mean what they are invested with. 'I'm sorry' is the vessel. What's inside the 'sorry' container makes all the difference.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Everything good starts with a conscious decision. (p. xi)”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

“We are here to have questions, doubt, and then find/adjust ourselves back…finding each and every way we can act out our truth in this material form. And the consciousness and awareness of the knowledge of each unique experience is then added to our larger awareness and never lost.
Yes, for there is nothing lost. All truth is available to us at any time.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“The greatest tragedy for humanity is that we have been brought up with the idea that we already know what love is. The truth is that we do not know what love is. That is the fundamental problem for humanity, which is what causes all other problems.
We think that it is the presence of love that creates all problems, but it is really the absence of love that creates all problems. And because of the false idea that we already think that we know what love is, we live without love.
The potential for love is already there within us, but we have to know how to develop the potential for love. Life is the opportunity to grow the potential for love. But it is the idea that we already know what love is that
prevents us to develop the potential for love.
In a better human society, we will say that our whole life is a tremendous opportunity to grow the seeds of love. Life is a tremendous opportunity to learn the art of growing the seeds of love. That is the art of love.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“The meditator and the soldier are of opposite polarity in the world. The soldier is born when the soul of the person is destroyed. The soldier has been forced. controlled and manipulated to become a mechanical robot. He is reduced to an non-human entity, which has fallen below the human. He has forgotten his own freedom.
Throughout the history of man soldiers have been needed, because human history has consisted of trying to conquer the world and achieve world dominion. The stupidity of trying to conquer the world has been the basic cause of the soldier, because humanity has not become mature. The whole training of the soldier is to remain immature and prevent his spiritual growth.
The exact opposite polarity of the soldier is the meditator. The mediator is a growth of spiritual maturity. It means a spiritual maturity born out of love, not fear. It means a spiritual growth out of freedom, not out of
slavery. This spiritual maturity of love and freedom is not imposed. It grows out his being, so that one day you will say yes to the whole existence, to life itself.
Ultimately it is saying yes to God, which is the ultimate peak of love, trust, joy, truth and freedom. That is the ultimate peak of consciousness. The soldier falls below humanity, while the meditator goes above humanity.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“When we practice being in the true present moment we bring ourselves into ever-increasing contact with our pure, native consciousness and awareness - this provides us with countless benefits and blessings:”
― Eric Bjarnson Ph.D., Some Universals, Vol. 2: Intention and Attention

“Being surveilled with the intention of assault or rape is practically mundane, it happens so often. It's such an ingrained part of the female experience that it doesn't register as unusual. The danger of it, then, is in its routine, in how normalized it is for a woman to feel monitored, so much so that she might not know she's in trouble until that invisible line is crossed from" typical patriarchy "to" you should run.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Women are so used to being watched that we don't notice when someone's watching us for the worst reason imaginable.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“[The ordinary, everyday quiet, calm sense of Presence/ Being/ Awareness in the stillness, in the Now, behind everything, IS" God "/ Source / Infinite Intelligence / Omnipresence / Omniscience.]

I realized this sense of simply "being" is ordinary and easily overlooked.
What is extraordinary is the fact that "this" somehow knows every hair on my head and those of over seven billion of my fellow human beings.
"This" is undivided wholessness. [...]
"This" is the space in between your thoughts, and it is the source of your thoughts.
It is ever-present, timeless and formless. It is self-aware. It is whole, complete and indivisible.

This part of you is the same in me and everyone you have ever met and will ever meet.

"This" is the meeting place that kindred spirits refer to when they greet each other with the Sanskrit salutation and say, "Namaste". Said with meaning, the heart opens to the mutual message in this one, simple word:"I honor the place in you that is of love, of light, of truth and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one."”
― Suzanne Giesemann, The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life

“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Forgetting head, heritage 'n sanity,
I have placed you heartmidst.
I know not much prayer nor poetry;
When heart is frozen, all prayer is amiss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“You know that feeling when you suddenly realize that you are alive, that you’ve lived days without noticing that you’re alive, days without realizing that you control the most minute movements of your extremities, days without truly thinking about the impact of every little thing you do, days without living at all, days of merely existing...”
― Stephen Nothum, Teething and Other Tales From the American Dystopia

“We are not people, but vessels of possibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission