Quotes About Awareness

Alcoholics bleed a lot. Because they hit their heads a lot.

Robert Olen Butler

Consciousness is the awareness of awareness.

the capstone to Robert Ornstein's brilliant, ground-breaking half century of research into the dimensions, capacities, and purposes of human consciousness. —Tony Hiss

There will be no further evolution without conscious evolution. - Robert Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness

Our visual system does not simply reflect external reality but rather actively constructs it.

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive dispositions.

Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.

Remember: if you can see the Empire State Building, The Empire State Building can see you.

Now, forgetting is the means of transition from one state of consciousness to another. Even in the case of sleep, which can be considered as a "natural ecstasy", one has to forget the world of the day in order to be able to pass into the world of the night. In order to fall asleep one has to be able to forget. Insomnia is due to the inability to forget.

admit that I only know what I read in the newspapers or see on the television. But that is the only information most of us have to go on. If it is incorrect or biased or even downright lies, how can we be expected to know?

And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them. And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk.

H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s'pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain't a boy any longer.

Intentional dying is possible only for one who has attained a high degree of mastery over his physical functions, who knows how to project the principle of consciousness out of the physical body, who is able to tell, by certain inner signs, when his time has come, and who is able with full awareness and without artificial aids to let the life process come to a halt so far as this particular body is concerned.

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!

At this point, simply ask the Lord to give you the courage to be honest. Give Him permission to shine His Spirit's light on your thoughts, feelings, and actions. You may be surprised by additional pain as you realize the extent of your wounds, but our experience of healing can only be as deep as our awareness of the need for it. This takes the power of God's light. Ask Him to turn on the light.

Many of us are hurt emotionally, relationally, and spiritually, but because we are unaware of the extent of our wounds, we don't take steps toward healing and health. Our problem is not stupidity but a lack of objectivity. Because of this, we fail to see the reality of pain, hurt, and anger in our lives.

When we find the entry into this large stillness, our lives are irrevocably changed because at that moment a monumental transition takes place: we find that the center of the universe shifts from our self-interests, even our spiritual self-interests, to the larger world, even to the cosmos, which we now begin to perceive as a spiritual reality.

Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.

Life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time, the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Big egos have little ears.