Quotes About Unawareness

#1. 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

#2. Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount.

C. JoyBell C.

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

Rajneesh

#6. People are often unaware of their own unawareness

Thomas Gilovich

#7. The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.

Rajneesh

#8. Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.

Thomas Dreier

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Fernando Flores

#13. A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Osbert Lancaster

#14. In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a blind man, they walked side by side ; the blind man's unawareness of his own blindness was a consolation only to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#15. It is the duty of every citizen /resident of any country , nationals as well as expatriates to know the basics of the governing laws of the country one resides.

Ignorance of the law or unawareness cannot be pleaded to escape liability.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#16. 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

#17. Mostly humanity lives with its consciousness asleep blowing like a leaf in the winds of unawareness.

Amit Ray

#18. Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.

Jaggi Vasudev

#19. 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

#20. To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

Margaret Landon

#21. What I am about to set forth is our system for gaining power over the people of the world. We have two things that will help us achieve this: we have ourselves, with our knowledge, intentions, scheming and actions, and we have the unawareness of the mass of the people.

Paul Bowden

#22. Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

#23. Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

Jaggi Vasudev

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space

Eckhart Tolle

#27. The sole problem was the terrible unawareness.

Edmund S. Phelps

#28. There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

#29. My hand is clutching Sebastian's, although I'm not sure he's even aware of it after all we've been through.

Theresa Braun

#30. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

Ethel M. Dell

#32. Fish are not the best authority on water.

Jane Yolen