Quotes About Awareness

Being alive, Tattersail concluded as she approached her tent, isn't the same as feeling good about it.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged.

Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

to have knowledge of means to have responsibility to means to have care for.

The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.

In the context of one's calling, how does one learn to see with the eyes of the heart, to see oneself as responsible for the way the world is and isn't?

I remember Jerzy Dudek being in a terrible state. Normally Jerzy's the nicest fellow on the planet; but after a night on the drink he came out of Monty's wanting to fight the security guys and the police. He wanted to take on the world. I think that's when most of us realized, a little blearily, it was time to call it a night.

Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.

Being able to slowly and objectively size up a situation is crucial. We observe. We take a curious, yet concerned, attitude. We gather information in a relaxed, thoughtful manner, but we do not rush in to fix the problem. Using the information we've gathered, we determine what action to take.

It is important to remember that, for the most part, people don't join cults. Cults recruit people.

Information provides the tools with which we think and understand reality. Without accurate, up-to-date information, we can easily be manipulated and controlled.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

The increased awareness of the new universe and the possibility of a biological universe largely dashed any remaining hopes for an anthropocentric universe with all that implies for religion and philosophy.

Our technology, art, and what we know of our world, is unspeakably exhilarating and terrifyingly dangerous. We are capable of powerful creations and complete annihilation. Our consciousness is uncontainable—to the point of agonizing awareness. Homo sapiens sapiens has a power unlike Earth has ever seen.

Coping with the uncertainty of larger cosmic objective meaning may be one of the most profound challenges sufficiently aware beings have to face [...]. Indeed, human beings might be further along in this regard than may be commonly thought—much of the human population seems to able to cope without religion and without a larger sense of cosmic meaning and purpose.

At its core, empathy is the ability to see the world from another person's perspective, the capacity to tune in to what someone else might be thinking and feeling about a situation—regardless of how that view might differ from your own perception. It is an extremely powerful interpersonal tool.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

It embraces Emotional Self-Awareness—the ability to recognize how you're feeling and why you're feeling that way, and the impact your emotions have on the thoughts and actions of yourself and others; Self

Empathy is the ability to recognize, understand, and appreciate what others may be feeling and thinking.

What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' There's a subjective character of experience that's never captured in reductive accounts. Know what I mean?' 'Um . . . Sure.

finding God brings meaning into every moment—I