Quotes About Awareness

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

When it is proclaimed that one must become more "sensitive" to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition usually accompanies this opaque imperative.

Lack of awareness or concern for the context and constraints of the times is only part of the problem of those today assessing such historic figures as Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln - or the American nation as a whole.

Too much of what is called education is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There are too many people, especially among the intelligentsia, who will never appreciate the things that have made this country great until after those things have been destroyed — with their help. Then, of course, it will be too late.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, unless you stop and think.

To understand most of the discussions about economics that take place in the media and in politics, all you need is to know the most basic economic principles. However, most of the people are unaware of them, including politicians, journalists and many academics from other fields.

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.

It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and it's as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard your name for the first time.

I am always conscious of this secret disruption in me

You put me in touch with my own soul.

Se había convertido en toda una experta, pensó, en escuchar como si no escuchara, en penetrar fugazmente en las vidas de las personas que hablaban a su alrededor.

As you begin to see yourself, your family, and the old, outmoded behavior patterns that run your life with more clarity, you're taking steps to live more deeply from your authentic self.

We can't begin to free ourselves from a trap of seeing life in a certain way or believing certain things unless we realize that we're in a trap. Only then can we begin to break free.

Usually this is a result of having had to be hypervigilant as a child—especially if your family situation was chaotic or frightening—and consequently developing a habit of trying to see problems before they even show up.

There are always options in life—and you may not have been aware of that up until now, because there often are not a lot of options in a dysfunctional family. Be open to other options and new possibilities as much as you can, and know that you can trust yourself to handle whatever comes up.

Most people in the world will not treat you the same way your dysfunctional family did. It takes a while to begin to see that the world is different than the family atmosphere. The more time you can spend thinking about what you want, noticing what situations in the present remind you of the past and releasing the related emotions, and encouraging yourself in what you most want to do, the more quickly you can heal from the past.

One should never eat les crustaces in months spelled without R—they may contain poison.

La felicidad, pensó, está hecha de pequeñas cosas. Siempre se la espera con mayúsculas, pero llega a nosotros de puntillas y puede pasar bajo nuestras narices sin darnos cuenta