Quotes About Awareness

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

We are poor passing facts. warned by that to give each figure in the photograph his living name.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

When it comes to predicting future conflicts, what kind of fights they will be, and what will be needed, we need a lot more humility.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good now days?

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

His will was weakening; he recognised the signs.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe

that every man knows and marks his birthday each year, but can take no notice of his deathday, though it comes round with the same regularity.

Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask." —Sam Keen

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

I don't see how people go on living as stupid as some of them are.

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.