Quotes About Awareness

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

It's very quiet but I'm aware that life is going on outside.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

Know thyself." Sure, of course, you must. But afterwards, the project is to make yourself a stranger to yourself once more.

The joint realization that we live in a remarkable cosmic cocoon and can create languages and rocket ships in an otherwise apparently dumb universe ought to be transformative. Until we find other self-aware intelligences, we are how the universe thinks. We might as well start enjoying one another's company.

From my informal surveys, it is very uncommon knowledge that the part of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it.

consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.

We are entering the Age of Awareness, marked by machine intelligence everywhere.

Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

We all die. Nearly half of us die of cancer (38 percent of females, 45 percent of males).

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough.

Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.")

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.

we all have a number of executive subselves, and the only way we manage to accomplish anything in life is to allow only one subself to take the conscious driver's seat at any given time.

If the concept that technologies have biases were to become common knowledge, we could implement them consciously and purposefully. If we don't bring this concept into general awareness, our technologies and their effects will continue to threaten and confound us.

Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I'd have cast a brick.

as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. 'The subject exhibited a pain response.' But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her .

There is no barrier so strong as that of ignorance.