Quotes About Awareness

La indiferencia mata

fíjate en lo que se dice y no en quien lo dice.   El

La ignorancia emocional se conoce con el nombre de alexitimia, y significa incapacidad de lectura emocional.

Qué es la autocrítica? Examinar las propias creencias, valores y comportamientos y descubrir lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso de nuestra manera de pensar.

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

Divine judgment is intended not to destroy but to awaken people to the devastating truth about their lives.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness . . . that time is now.

Hallowed landscapes lost their sacredness and were exploited as the local people became insensitive to the destruction, accepting it as a sign of progress.

If we treat Socrates as an internalized feature of the mind, then this is its first and constant order of business: uprooting false conceits of knowledge.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

we all live in the world our questions create.

Great questioners "keep looking"—at a situation or a problem, at the ways people around them behave, at their own behaviors. They study the small details; and they look for not only what's there but what's missing. They step back, view things sideways, squint if necessary.

Everything that's ever happened to you or occurred to you in your life informs every decision you make—and also influences what questions you decide to ask. So it can be useful to step back and inquire, Why did I come up with that question?" Burton adds, "Every time you come up with a question, you should be wondering, What are the underlying assumptions of that question? Is there a different question I should be asking?

What's required is a willingness to go out into the world with a curious and open mind, to observe closely, and—perhaps most important, according to a number of the questioners I've interviewed—to listen.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th 1987, you just didn't know it.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.