Quotes About Awareness

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects.

Tvoja ?e vizija postati jasna tek kada se zagledaš u svoje srce. Onaj tko gleda prema van, sanja. Onaj koji gleda prema unutra, budi se'.

Unfortunately there is no doubt about the fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

There are so many indications that one does not know what one sees. Is it the trees or is it the woods?

Those who look outside, dream; those who look inside, awaken.

Non foras ire, in interiore homine habitat veritas' (Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).

By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

in order to undergo a far-reaching psychological development, neither outstanding intelligence nor any other talent is necessary. . .

people who don't hear you don't hear you.

One of the doctors who reviewed how people had performed in that operating room could have been speaking about denial in general when he astutely said: "It's like waking up in your house with a room full of smoke, opening the window to let the smoke out, and then going back to bed.

I realize this now, but I didn't know it then." Of course, if it is in their heads now, so was it then. What they mean is that they only now accept the significance

In my work I don't have that luxury. The stakes of some predictions require that I intimately recognize and accept what I observe in others no matter who they are, no matter what they have done, no matter what they might do, no matter where it takes me in myself. There may be a time in your life when you too won't have the luxury of saying you don't recognize someone's sinister intent. Your survival may depend on your recognizing it.

I have seen these pieces so often that I may recognize them sooner than some people, but my main job is just to get them on the table.

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter.

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter. When approached by a stranger while walking on some city street at night, no matter how engaging he might be, you must never lose sight of the context: He is a stranger who approached you. A good exercise is to occasionally remind yourself of where you are and what your relationship is to the people around you.

As we stand on the tracks, we can avoid the oncoming train only if we are willing to see it and willing to predict that it won't stop. But instead of improving the technologies of prediction, America improves the technologies of conflict:

Those people we are willing to suspect are inherently less dangerous than those we refuse to suspect. We

children died that same week at the hands of a parent, just like every week—and most of them were under 5 years old. Four million luckier children were physically abused last year

You are an animal of nature, fully endowed with hearing, sight, intellect, and dangerous defenses. You are not easy prey, so don't act like you are.

The defense for too many details is simple: bring the context into conscious thought.

Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You