awareness Quotes

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.