Quotes About Awareness

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Falling in love creates beauty in every facet of life. A hovering bee, a gentle flowing creek, pale blue sky, the crinkle at the corner of an old woman's eye, bare feet on velvet moss, a songbird in a bush, even the howl of a far away wolf become so beautiful to those finding a new love. It was like that for Sassy and Hanlon, everything seemed sharper and clearer. It was like a new view of the world that they had never known existed had opened up to them. Doug Hiser Montana Mist

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

Everyone's mortality is in the lens now and it's not necessarily a telephoto shot.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

Jane turned and looked at Rob who was still staring into space with a crazed look on his face. 'Are you listening to this?' she said as she thumped him on the arm. Rob turned to her and broke into a broad grin. 'Listening to what?' he laughed. 'I'm loaded. I don't have to listen to anything!' 'Yes you do,' said England calmly. 'You have to listen very carefully.

Realizing when a diversion has gotten out of control is one of the great challenges of life.

To be numb to another's pain—to be acculturated to violence—is arguably one of the worst consequences our technological advances have wrought.

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Outer-body-experiences are hard to describe, since all we really know are our five senses. Suffice it to say that there was a tingling sensation and a sense of the laws of gravity loosening their grip on my body, much like being an astronaut floating above the surface of my house.

I think it is essential to promote your work, since there are over 100,000 books published each year, and readers can fall in love with books they've never heard about.

In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.

We look away until we have no choice. Then we examine them, remember them, and look away again, as if we're not meant to think too much about them, but to live. Just live and forget.

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

T.S. Elliot: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

when you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached. Since

I would define qualia as subjective experiences, sensations," he replied, "that only conscious entities seem to be able to have. How a thing seems. How it feels. How it affects a consciousness emotionally and spiritually. The pain of a toothache. The beauty of a sunset. The taste of wine.

it's hidden, even from her." Frey laughed. "We both know that's not true anymore. I wasn't there in person,

In each of us there is another whom we do not know." —Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology