“Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.”
“Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.”
“People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.”
“There is much more to life than what we all know.”
“When you re aligned with your Soul, you re aligned with the whole.”
“If you are 90 years old and have only lived 5 years of that with awareness then you only lived 5 years!”
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
“Earth s crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: This is water. This is water. It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
“Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you”
“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.”
“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
“Let us not hoodwink our eyes, blurring our awareness and misleading our apprehension. Let us dare to “see” what we see and, at the same time, touch the feel and the overtone as well. ( Man without Qualities )”
“Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.”