Quotes About Awareness

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive, but a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself-but it is sometimes important to ask it"In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

There is something restful in the unconsciousness of animals—unconscious, that is, of all the things that matter so much to us and do not matter at all to them.

What the eye sees better the heart feels more deeply.

We are already the most over informed, under reflective people in a history of civilisation. We already have a 24h news cycle, internet newspapers and continuous information about day to day unfolding of civic proceedings. Better informed people are not necessarily better educated people.

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

How do we help people (whether individuals or groups) to make their third column commitments visible? We begin by surfacing the biggest fears that arise in considering doing the opposite of any or all of the second-column behaviors. In

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

There is no greater burden than to be cursed with knowledge.

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's the living.

I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale

As with the awareness network, we have found it helpful to map the access network to understand who can reach whom.

I should be just as concerned about what I consume on Monday morning as I am on Saturday night. My vows, meaning my covenants, made at baptism and in the holy temple, should and must guide me throughout the entire week.

The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death.

This is what the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr talked about as "the sin of sensuality." And it's what the Hindus talk about as maya—the dance of illusion, the intoxicating (addictive) dance of sensuous things that enchants and enthralls the mind, catching us up in the cycles of pleasure and pain.

if you are not in touch with the king in the other world, your life in this world is going to be a terrible mess.

About the best that can be done is to try to place oneself in a position to get lucky. Nothing is certain, but shrewd, well-informed planning, a determined use of every possible advantage, and a continuous awareness and acceptance of an ever-shifting environment can raise the odds.

We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill

I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew — no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.

We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble.

We focus so much on what the five senses tell us, and on what we want, and on how to use our will to create what we want, that we forget there is another side to our nature. This

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.