Quotes About Observation

The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

Miles away, the red taillights of semi-trucks were moving along the interstate, and Dustin was suddenly aware that there were people inside them, that they were traveling to distant places and they would never know that he and Rusty were watching them. It made him feel a strange, tingling kind of ache.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst.

Her eyes are open but she does not see.

Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man's face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man's eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.

Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if they were going to observe it accurately ... but another world nonetheless. One filled with powerful voices relaying even more powerful thoughts.

He hated it when she had too much to drink and tried to hide it, acting the perfect lady—but Harlen could always tell by the precise diction, the slow movements, and the way she got all sloppy and tried to hug him.

But who the hell cares if the flowers bloom if no one is around to see them, to smell them?

All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man's foot which I had seen; for as yet I never saw any human creature come near the island, and I had now lived two years under these uneasinesses, which indeed made my life much less comfortable than it was before;

A atenção plena desenvolve a nossa capacidade para observar a nossa experiência momento a momento de uma forma imparcial e não reativa. Praticamos o abandono dos pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular e abrimos o foco àquilo que nos vier à mente no fluxo da consciência, sem nos deixarmos perder no curso de pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular.

Muchos grandes encestadores de baloncesto, como Hank Aaron, por ejemplo, visionan una y otra vez vídeos de los pívots del equipo al que están a punto de enfrentarse para descubrir, en el juego de sus adversarios, indicios que pueden resultarle de alguna utilidad.

Weekends and weekdays, when you knew I was looking and when you didn't even guess I was alive. Even with shiny stars bothering your head it was beautiful.

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you.

Caring less about things that used to matter because no one else seems to care. And that's the moment you start to see all those precious differences slip away." "So

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Someone who desires to be fully alive has to do nothing but observe without inner commentary the automatic mechanisms that stop him from tasting the tremoring vibration of life. This observation alone is the key to our liberation. It requires naked and silent awareness, detached from all objectives.

We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there.

No, he wasn't waiting; he was merely there, had been there before I arrived and would be there when I'd left. I had the feeling I was of no more significance to him than a passing cloud is to a shepherd resting on a hillside.