Awareness Quotes

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

reality

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Life commences not with birth, but with the onslaught of awareness.

Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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