--- title: "11 Lack Awareness Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Lack Awareness quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Lack Awareness sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/e-bernard-jordan-84191_awareness_when-you-lack-the-awareness-of-being-god_2691844.jpg" --- > [When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-bernard-jordan/when-you-lack-the-awareness-of-being-god-you-make-everything/) [E. Bernard Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-bernard-jordan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/e-bernard-jordan-84191_awareness_when-you-lack-the-awareness-of-being-god_2691844.jpg) > [Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/lack-of-awareness-of-the-basic-unity-of-organism-and-environment-is-a/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/alan-watts-587_alienation_lack-of-awareness-of-the-basic-unity-of_1271314.jpg) > [If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes/if-i-lack-awareness-then-why-should-i-care-what-happens-to-me-when-i/) [Diogenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/diogenes-4214_awareness_if-i-lack-awareness-then-why-should-i-ca_2931852.png) > [What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-blinds-us-or-what-makes-historical-progress-very-difficult-is/) [Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/terence-mckenna-287_awareness_what-blinds-us-or-what-makes-historical_666028.png) > [A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-modiano/a-novelist-s-lack-of-awareness-of-and-critical-distance-to-his-own/) [Patrick Modiano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-modiano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/patrick-modiano-14360_awareness_a-novelist-s-lack-of-awareness-of-and-cr_1779334.jpg) > [That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/that-sort-of-lack-of-awareness-on-the-part-of-an-activist-about-the/) [Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a05/barack-obama-17_activist_that-sort-of-lack-of-awareness-on-the-pa_746238.jpg) > [To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/to-not-follow-the-dharma-either-intentionally-or-through-lack-of/) [Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caa/frederick-lenz-8_all-kinds_to-not-follow-the-dharma-either-intentio_1814983.jpg) > [Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/our-failure-to-see-and-access-the-pure-joy-and-radiance-of-life-is/) [Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/frederick-lenz-8_access_our-failure-to-see-and-access-the-pure-j_3113201.jpg) > [“And have you also noticed that it’s hopeless to dictate people’s awareness or behavior? So let’s turn it around. She loves you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-katie/and-have-you-also-noticed-that-it-s-hopeless-to-dictate-people-s/) [Byron Katie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-katie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/byron-katie-553_awareness_and-have-you-also-noticed-that-it-s-hope_645372.png) > [“The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-kabat-zinn/the-habit-of-ignoring-our-present-moments-in-favor-of-others-yet-to/) [Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-kabat-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f7/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_awareness_the-habit-of-ignoring-our-present-moment_940425.jpg) > [“Gaining insight or awareness is an important part of the getting-well process. Chapter 7 offers several exercises in self-awareness, designed to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-berent/gaining-insight-or-awareness-is-an-important-part-of-the-getting-well/) [Jonathan Berent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-berent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/jonathan-berent-4272_awareness_gaining-insight-or-awareness-is-an-impor_2455981.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lack-awareness/#itemlist", "name": "Lack Awareness Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you lack the awareness of being God you make everything impossible. Wow! Stop living in your humanity and start living in your divinity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E. 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