Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself.

 

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return

The menu is not the meal.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully--as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. Do you see? Does it mean anything to you?

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is Knowledge of oneself..

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.