Quotes About Awareness

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

In a way it was a relief to be spared the responsibilities that came with a knowledge of the details of another life.

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now? CHAPTER 37 When

once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.

Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it.

To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

Cuando crezcas te darás cuenta de que casi todo lo que se oye por la noche puede interpretarse de diversas formas. Y de hecho, no sólo por la noche y no sólo lo que se oye: también lo que se ve, e incluso lo que se ve a plena luz del día, puede casi siempre entenderse de muchas formas.

in all kinds of colors that don't have names. In general, I think there are far more colors and smells than there are words. The

I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I like radio personalities, and I like to change lanes. And losing yourself on the freeway is like living at the beach--you're not aware of lapsed time, and suddenly you're there, where it was you were going.