Quotes About Awareness

The reason for this double standard in our scepticism is, quite simply, that we can see and we can't echolocate.

Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.

consciousness-raising.

Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Maybe we have lost the ability, that sixth sense that allows us to see miracles and have visions and understand that we are something other, larger than what we have been told. Maybe evolution has been going on in reverse longer than I suspect, and we are already sad, dumb fish.

Her eyes burnt like the blue in a gas flame. They were ferocious things. For some moments her eyes were all he was aware of. And they were looking at him. But there was no look in them. It was as if she were just drinking him up. Was she assessing him? Judging him? He didn't know. Maybe it was this sureness that made him both resentful and unsure.

But sometimes [love] was just there: ... he was ... shocked to know he had been lucky to live and know it, to love and be loved.

Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us.

So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know.

Thinking: The world is. It just is.

he understood the measure of his life now to be his capacity to believe in something - anything - other than what was happening in front of him. So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

Stop searching. Face the earth where you can. Literally speaking, it's all you have to go on.

How amazingly far normalcy extends; how you can keep it in sight as if you were on a raft sliding out to sea, the stitch of land growing smaller and smaller. Or in a balloon swept up on a column of prairie air, the ground widening and flattening, growing less and less distinct below you. You notice it, or you don't notice it. But you're already too far away and all is lost.

It's odd how our fears, the ones we didn't know we had, alter our sight line and make us see things that never were.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I believe in what you see being most of what there is, as I've taught my students, and that life's passed along to us empty. So, while significance weighs heavy, that's the most it does. Hidden meaning is all but absent.

Tony Lamas and fitted polo shirt. And that growing sense

It is we ourselves who are responsible for knowing the truth

What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.

The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

merely bringing up facts that were well known in the scientific community, but perhaps best not discussed in public. A Papua New Guinea language has a term for this, Mokita. It means 'truth that we all know, but agree not to talk about.

In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. QUELLCRIST