Quotes About Awareness

At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth.

But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.

On the simplest level he could tell you in detail what he felt—what effects an aspirin had on him, what it did to the back of his neck or the inside of his mouth. I was curious about this, because for the life of them most people can't describe what goes on inside. Alcoholics or druggies are too confused, hypochondriacs are their own terrorists, and most of us are aware only of a metabolic uproar within.

Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle...

All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters.

Humankind is still fooling around with hypocrisy, I thought. They don't realize that it's too late even for that.

The secret of our being still asks to be unfolded. Only now we understand that worrying at it and ragging it is no use. The first step is to stop these oscillations of consciousness that are keeping me awake. Only, before you command the oscillations to stop, before you check out, you must maneuver yourself into a position in which metaphysical aid can approach.

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.

what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.

In every direction, the walls of life are tiled with such facts so that you can never account for them all, only note some of the more conspicuous ones.

began to be aware of the tremble of insects as they played their instruments underneath the stems, down at the very base of the heat.

Reality instructors. They want to teach you – to punish you with – the lessons of the Real.

I imagine, sometimes, that if a film could be made of one's life, every other frame would be death. It goes so fast we're not aware of it. Destruction and resurrection in alternate beats of being, but speed makes it seem continuous. But you see, kid, with ordinary consciousness you can't even begin to know what's happening.

As a man sees, so he is." The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.

Forgetfully, Wilhelm traveled for miles in second gear; he was seldom in the right lane and he neither gave signals nor watched for lights.

By now I have gone many miles toward the promise of sleep, but I reach my destination blindingly wide awake. My state therefore is something like a state of insomniac illumination.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.

Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition that you don't know as much as you thought you knew.

It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.

the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened.

Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment, It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn't matter to you.

There are three important things to know about human beings in order to understand why we do the things we do. Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don't know it.