T. S. Eliot Quotes

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Do not sleep. Be awake on your throne.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who don't know are at peace. Those of us who do know get disturbed and are forced to take action.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in. Ego is a tension. If you want the ego, then divide yourself as fully as possible - become two persons. That is what is happening to many people, that is what has happened to whole of humanity. Everybody has become two persons: one voice says "Do this," the other voice says "Don't do that" - then the ego arises. Out of friction ego arises, and ego is very intoxicating; it makes you unconscious. This is the whole mechanism."

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it