Quotes About Awareness

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed.

You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom

I pass beneath a fixed white line of trees where dry leaves lie for footsteps to dismember. They crackle with a muted sound like fear. That and the wind are all that I can hear. I ask cold air, "What is the word that frees?" The wind says, "Change," and the white sun, "Remember.

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon the most social of human interchanges, where awareness and communication, whether verbal or no, hold all together or sunder it.

All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.

There is so much you don't see. You walk around in a world with holes in it; you stumble into them; and get hurt.

For three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed animal...

Appreciation is not a warm feeling, Rydra realized, but cool, and makes your back relax at the same time that you smile.

Uma consciência multiplexa sempre faz perguntas quando precisa.

People probably do hear watches go tic-tok. But I'm sure my childhood clock went tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic…Why

When doctors think they've eradicated a disease, they stop looking for it. So if the disease itself suddenly shows up again, they may not even recognize it; they may even mistake it for an entirely new one.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.

Forewarned is forearmed...

Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

Sometimes, drunk, I ruminate on the state of my liver, and think of all the cirrhotics I have watched turn yellow and die. They either bleed out, raving, coughing up and drowning in blood from ruptured esophageal veins, or, in coma, they slip away, slip blissfully away down the yellow-brick ammonia-scented road to oblivion.

It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299).

I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

To know and to act are one and the same.