Quotes About Awareness

She has lost her city eyes. Who you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people.

Construction work was the art of making the city become aware of itself as a fragile organism at the mercy of forces against which there was no appeal.

nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogeneous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.

Bir iç çekiÅŸ yaln?zca iç çekiÅŸ deÄŸildir. Dünyay? içimize çekeriz, soluÄŸumuzla birlikte d?? dünyaya anlam da veririz. YapabildiÄŸimiz sürece. YapabildiÄŸimiz kadar?yla.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don't impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don't look like dormitories.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence:

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

How can we be "free" as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?

Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.

A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write.

How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and contemplatives have made this claim for ages—but a growing body of scientific research now bears it out.

We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process.

How can we be "free" as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can't.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking.

Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.

if you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.

Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.

The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world.

we do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws.