Quotes About Awareness

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

I never remember my dreams which suits me fine.

To love is to listen, to listen is to learn, and to learn is to live

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

anoscetia the anxiety of not knowing "the real you.

sonder the awareness that everyone has a story.

ambedo a momentary trance of emotional clarity.

kairosclerosis n. the moment you realize that you're currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste.

occhiolism n. the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn't possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.

And maybe one day we'll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stopped to introduce ourselves.

I want to keep the emptiness away, to realize the Sense of what it's like to be alive instead of just existing.

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

No lo ví venir. Un momento antes: todo, ya sabes: Londres.

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

Troy glanced at the boys, wondering how much they heard and how much they understood. Eight cherubic faces, and sixteen hard, ruthless eyes looked back at him.