Unawareness Quotes

• The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

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• The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

  Rajneesh

  World, Problem, Awareness

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Travel, Freedom

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Missing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.74, Bantam

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• Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

  Hubert Reeves

  God, Nature, Men

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• Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Sleep

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• The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him. Thus the nights pass, and we live in unawareness; and the days greet us and embrace us. But we live in constant dread of day and night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Men

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• Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Clarity

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• Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, New Earth, Coexist

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

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• Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sensitivity

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Knowing, Advice

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• The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Roots

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• There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Ignorance, Intellect

  "'Tuhaf al-Uqul' ('The Masterpieces of the Mind')". Hadith book by Ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani,

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• Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

  Manly Hall

  Ignorance, Men, Knowing Nothing

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.604, Courier Corporation

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• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  Fernando Flores

  Caring, Feel Good, Style

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• One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Heart, Grace

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• Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Thinking

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• Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

  Michelle Malkin

  Birthday, Jobs, Ignorance

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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

  John Gielgud

  Jobs, Business, Mean

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• It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

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• As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Life, Brother, Learning

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• Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

  Glenn Clark

  Believe, Men, Genius

  Glenn Clark (2008). “The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe”, p.12, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

  Ian Mcewan

  Photography, Godly, Years

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• Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

  Alan Coren

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books

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