Quotes about Awareness

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.

How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal. Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.