Quotes About Awareness

the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won't actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered.

The contemporary Western tenet that we are alone in the universe, conversant only with ourselves, is, in fact, a minority perspective, an anomaly.

We can continue to try to make the phenomenon fit the world as we have known it, jamming it into a kind of procrustean bed of consensus reality. Or we can acknowledge that the world might be other than we have known it. Then we are free to see where our thinking leads us.

And I did not foresee how fundamentally challenged the view of the world in which I had been raised would be.

Incidentally, one should make a distinction, as Freud did a long time ago, between mental items that are not conscious but that can be brought to consciousness with effort, like the things in our memories—Freud called that mental domain the preconscious—and things in the unconscious that are unavailable and cannot be recalled. We simply don't know they are there.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Trick about night is it changes things but you can't see exactly how. You know the park is different, you feel it in your bones. Night air cools the skin, contours of the ground rise and fall in unfamiliar rhythms, spaces open which haven't been there before, the hollow loses its bottom, a black lap you'd sink into forever.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

a crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?

When I speak in casual conversation, I try to start a mental clock in my head. I actually learned this from Marty Nemko, a San Francisco career coach. He told me, "For the first thirty seconds after you start talking, imagine a green light in your head. After thirty seconds the light turns yellow. At sixty seconds, it's red." That's a good piece of advice for most any conversational situation. It takes some mental energy to monitor myself, but it works.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

Had I not been drawn out by interested grown-ups, I might well have drifted farther into the world of autism. I might have ceased to communicate.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.

If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.

We never, ever believe the truth until it's too late.

The moment you realize you already have everything you're looking for, the universe gives it to you.

The purpose of relationships is to help awaken you to the inherent balance existing within and around you, and to assist you in acknowledging your own magnificence and wholeness.

See or perish. This is the situation imposed on every element of the universe by the mysterious gift of existence.13

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.

You have to be mindful of your people without becoming forgetful of yourself….