Quotes About Observation

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

My witness is the empty sky.

Pain can work from the outside in. I mean that sometimes what you see is pain. Pain in its cruelest, purest form.

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

She had never met an actor who wasn't utterly dim

Up here, if they found them, they were helpless. People don't look up, she thought. Melissa was sleeping now, but what if she woke and cried?

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

We note feelings and find that they last for only a few seconds. We pay attention to thoughts and find that they are ephemeral, that they come and go, uninvited, like clouds.

Magic," Core responded, "is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the observer

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer colours of the dusk, the green and orange bark, the purple shadows. At times like this Flinty felt her edges vanish, leaving her part of the mountains, like the wallaby pulling wonga vine down from a thorn bush, or the sleepy possum peering from a tree.

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

In summer heat he longed for her. When leaves turned, green to gold, he watched for her. As winter came, on feathered backs of redwing, fieldfare, and threaded through the call of curlew, he waited for her.

After a while, maybe hours, perhaps a few days, she fond herself talking to the hare. At first just comments on how bright the day was, the beauty of cherry blossom, the touch of the wind.

Farrell Kafji, who complained loudly that he had landed in the middle of a seventeenth-century field. 'And fields then are exactly like fields right now!' he shouted. 'I could've gone down to Forsyth Park if I wanted to see a field!

El logro de la Unidad se produce cuando el observador incorpora en un acto simultáneo de observación, todos los contenidos de la experiencia. En esta hazaña el observador se confunde con sus contenidos y desaparece la división entre ambos, lográndose así el acceso a la Realidad del Yo Puro.

El paso de la Conciencia de sí a la Conciencia de Unidad se produce cuando el acto de observación incorpora todos los contenidos posibles de la experiencia. El Observador unifica todos estos contenidos y por tanto se produce la Unidad del Observador y sus objetos de observación. Esta Conciencia de Unidad es un contacto con la Existencia Pura y tanto la existencia como la vida misma sobrepasan todo intento de explicación teórica.

Aprender de uno mismo significa tener la capacidad de observarse y de deducir, a partir de la observación, el estado en el cual funcionamos y lo que necesitamos corregir del mismo. Para poder observar nuestro interior, la herramienta fundamental es la concentración.

Jacqueline Davies

Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".