Quotes About Awareness

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past--it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.

You and IAre suddenly what the trees tryTo tell us we are:That their merely being thereMeans something; that soonWe may touch, love, explain.

We were surprised once, long ago; and now we can never be surprised again.

A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

The horses Have each seen a share of the truth, though each thinks, "I'm a maverick. Nothing of this is happening to me

We never live long enough in our lives to know what today is like. — John Ashbery, from "The Improvement," And the Stars were Shining (Noonday Press, 1994)

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. —Helen Keller

When you see me running, its already too late." Harry Hubbard

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes; Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of the open acres and the green trees; Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky: Forbid that when all Thy creatures are greeting the morning with songs and shouts of joy, I alone should wear a dull and sullen face.

Think About… How you might get more in tune with yourself. Spend at least a few minutes every day reflecting on how the day went. What went well and what would you like to have done better? Be mindful of feedback and make a point of thanking people who offer it.

Humility is a reflection of vulnerability; it is the self giving itself permission to say, "I don't know everything.

Ignorant people are controlled people, which is why five companies now have spent billions of dollars to control our mass media. Nothing will change until masses of people understand this.

There is a moment that comes in drunkenness, or on the far side of it, when, as is said to happen sometimes to the afflicted in the throes of a heart attack, I seem to separate from my body and float upward, and hang aloft, looking down on the spectacle of myself with disinterested attention.

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?

Supposedly nobody outside the group knew there was a group. Of course we all knew that wasn't true. High school was like the little clear plastic tunnels that Paul's hamsters lived in: you could run a long way but never get out, and always, everyone could see you.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Supervision, he says, is really a shared fantasy of what is actually going on – it is the result of a "trainee trying to imagine what he and his patient have been doing together and the supervisor (plus case seminar participants) trying to imagine it too." Supervision works best, he says, "if all parties remain aware that what they are jointly imagining is not true.

Intuition brings us a sense of the ecology of integrity, for intuition is the function that gives a feeling for the entire pattern operating in a given moment.

Whatever you think you are, that's what you are