Quotes About Awareness

If a proper education has to include an understanding of thinking, it also has to include an understanding of feelings.

To live consciously, I need to be sensitive to these distinctions. What I perceive, what I interpret it to mean, and how I feel about it are three separate questions. If I do not distinguish among them, my grounding in reality becomes the first casualty.

The first step towards change is awareness, the second step is acceptance.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...

Yes! - these were her realities - all else had vanished!

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

He was too calm and cool an observer. Phoebe felt his eye, often; his heart, seldom or never.

Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, I suppose, would have been frightened out of their wits by the very first of his ugly shapes, and would have taken to their heels at once. For, one of the hardest things in this world is, to see the difference between real dangers and imaginary ones.

Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.

The most powerful minds are not always the best acquainted with their own feelings.

My poor, dear, pretty Feathertop! There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was! Yet they live in fair repute, and never see themselves for what they are. And why should my poor puppet be the only one to know himself and perish for it?

As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive.

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

Cormac was completely aware that he was being manipulated, but how he could not see. He reckoned that when he did find out, the surprise would be a nasty one. That was how it usually went.

every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head.

I gotta go to the bathroom, Emby mumbles. You should have thought of that before you left, says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind . . . so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.