Quotes about Awareness
Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
— Mark Vonnegut
Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.
— Clayton M. Christensen
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
— Jonathan Edwards
The hero's journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you're in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that's not been touched. So you're at home here? Well, there's not enough of you there.' And so it starts.
— Joseph Campbell
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.
— Joseph Campbell
enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...
— Joseph Campbell
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
— Joseph Campbell
The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that the god that is in you recognises the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.
— Joseph Campbell
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
— AA Milne
What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.
— AA Milne