Quotes About Awareness

If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot. Such

without being conscious of it.

These people are the ones to watch out for

he is far from headquarters and has no idea of his minute-to-minute standing in the firm except through signals.

So our mission in life becomes simply "how not to be a turkey

We know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.

Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.

NÄ—ra gyvenimo be mirties. Taigi mes negalime sakyti, kad gyvename. Mes tiesiog 'esame'...

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it

Memory knows before knowing remembers," William Faulkner wrote.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The, first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance—consciousness and integration. They are the fountainhead of personal development.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness.

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level.

Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?

Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness . . . Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

Sentence Completions to Facilitate the Art of Living Consciously

The protection of self-esteem requires a clear understanding of the limits of personal responsibility.

We are not moved to change those things whose reality we deny.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider, not to look away but to look more attentively.