Awareness famous quotes
06-17-2025
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
-- Adi Shankara -
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
-- Alain de Botton -
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
-- Amit Ray -
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
-- Andre Breton -
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
-- Andre Breton -
Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.
-- Anita Moorjani -
I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.
-- Anjelica Huston -
Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
-- Anne Tyler -
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.
-- Arnold Mindell -
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
-- Arthur Erickson -
You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.
-- Ashley Judd -
Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.
-- Atisa -
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
-- Barry Long -
You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.
-- Bartholomaus -
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.
-- Bell Hooks -
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
-- Bill Crawford -
Your results are an expression of your level of awareness
-- Bob Proctor -
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
-- Bodhidharma -
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
-- Bodhidharma -
I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.
-- Brenda Song -
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
-- Brennan Manning -
Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
-- Brian Swimme -
Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
-- Byron Katie -
We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.
-- Byron Katie -
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.
-- Charlaine Harris -
I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?
-- Charles Bukowski -
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
-- Charles Dickens -
Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
-- Cheri Huber -
Awareness is a powerful catalyst for positive change.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
-- Christopher Reeve -
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
-- Claude Steiner -
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
-- Dalai Lama -
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
-- Dalai Lama -
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
-- Daniel Handler -
We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.
-- David Brenner -
We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
-- David Brooks -
Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience.
-- David Deida -
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
-- Dean Koontz -
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
-- Dennis Weaver -
If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
-- Diogenes -
An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.
-- Donald Curtis -
In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.
-- Donna Farhi -
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
True Power is within, and it is available now.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
-- Edward de Bono -
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
-- Emilie Autumn -
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
-- Emily Post -
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
-- Eric Berne -
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have.
-- Erin Brockovich -
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
-- Ernest Becker -
Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.
-- Ernst Junger -
Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
-- Erwin McManus -
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
-- Fay Weldon -
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
-- Frederick Franck -
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
-- Fritjof Capra -
Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
-- Gampopa -
To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.
-- Gangaji -
The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.
-- Gangaji -
The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.
-- Gangaji
