Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone. —Short Sammy

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.

Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go.

It (becoming disheartened) is insidious, buried, sticky . . . like a weird smell you can't quite pinpoint and eventually get used to. Becoming disheartened is actually one of three forms of laziness; the others are procrastination and being too busy.

Here was a path that led you, not away from strong emotion but directly toward it; one that applauded the ability to feel deeply—not for its dramatic qualities but for its vividness and intelligence.

Coming out of your head and into your environment can help cut anxiety for a few moments, and in those moments you have a chance to regain equilibrium.

to counter longing, pay attention to the present moment; to counter rage, invite sadness; and to reverse disheartenment, introduce an element of precision to your environment.

So what is this responsiveness? Here's a definition which you may find useful: 1. Being able to notice, pay attention to, reflect on, soothe and express our own emotions. 2. Being able to notice, pay attention to, reflect on, soothe and respond to a partner's emotions. 3. Being able to reflect on and discuss the interaction between 1 and 2. 4. Being able to do all the above even when a partner can't, won't or doesn't want to.

Trust the body of your enemy. The body does not lie. Most people," she'd looked directly at Mary, "most people do not know how to make the body lie.

That is really the direction in spiritual direction, as I understand it. As gently as possible, I try to say, It seems as though the light is coming from over there," and I point to it, hoping that I don't point in such a way that I block the person's view.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

Even if AI surpasses us intellectually, we still may stand out in a crucial dimension: it feels like something to be us.

The first thing the attendees saw when they walked in was a poster with the question "What are our mokitas?"—a Papua New Guinea word for that which everyone knows and no one will speak of: the elephant in the room.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.

In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

Sometimes the nearness of a storm may deafen us to distant thunder.