Quotes About Awareness

Tunnel vision is no way to make it as a researcher. Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

I want you to value life. Yours and others. More than you ever have before.

Watch the shrimp and eventually you'll find the goby, that was his belief.

It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you.

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

If you don't even know where the door is, how can you ever expect to be able to walk through it? Of course, you don't have to walk through it unless you want to. All I'm testing here is whether or not you know where the doorway is. I'm giving you choices.

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But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

He started to feel for himself, which is the only way to start feeling for others. (24)

Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

To do that you have to know exactly what was done, not what wasn't. You didn't do a lot of things on that last lap

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.

Self-liberation' implies the instantaneous dissolution of whatever enters into awareness.

Even at the moment of direct perception when gnostic awareness of emptiness as form and form as emptiness is experienced, the mind is preparing to dualize the situation.

More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!

Nothing infuriates reporters and editors more, I'm told, than to get a pitch from someone who clearly has no idea what their publication is about or who their audience is.

Everyone sees what you appear to be," observed Machiavelli, "few really know what you are.

The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

It's so hard to see when my eyes are on me.

one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one's ability to make appropriate sense of "what is" and "what occurs" in another's environment is bound to be deficient.

People, I realize, cannot live like a patch of grass. They could, I suppose, at one time, but we are so far removed from that time that it is hard to conceive. People can, however, live their lives with the realization that they are constantly changing, products of their changing environment and changing situations, and time. They can live, at least, in harmony with the knowledge and co-exist with it instead of working against it.