Quotes About Awareness

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.

Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza

I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present. They completely overlook the fact that, actually, right now, everything's fine. You can see that quite clearly in your interrogation exercise. What was it that chap told you? It's not the violence that breaks you. It's the threat of it. So why not just stay in the moment?

I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present.

Leer un libro va tallando senderos neuronales totalmente nuevos en el antiguo lecho de roca cortical de nuestro cerebro. Transforma la manera que tenemos de ver el mundo. Nos hace más alerta a la vida interior de los demás.

Often, problems arise and dangers accrue not too fast for us to notice, but too slow. So we need to draw lines to prevent things from going too far.

Yet anchoring your thoughts unswervingly in the present, focusing exclusively, immediately, on the here and now, is a cognitive discipline that both psychopathy and spiritual enlightenment have in common.

My conscience certainly feels like it's been spiked with moral Rohypnol.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

Mindfulness is fundamentally about being present for our life, for each moment in a wholehearted, nonreactive, inquisitive, and intuitive way.

The Buddha said everything starts with thoughts; that we speak and act based on thoughts; that our words and actions turn into habits—or addictions; and that those habits shape our character into something inflexible. So, he says, "Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings…. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become." This

When we are numbed by the constant inflow of sense experiences that our culture provides, it can become hard to feel anything more than superficially.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. This

to counter negativity in the mind is a classical Buddhist teaching called "replacing with the opposite";

Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they're small in size that they're small in all ways — and they're not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they're living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

All television is educational television. The question is merely, 'What is it teaching?

Would I be telling them in order to enrich their education or to enrich myself?

The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each

We are constantly surprised by things that have been happening for 20 years or longer. I

Do you own your own thoughts, or are you merely accessing them?

Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT's Media Lab, once quipped in the 1990s that the urinal in the men's restroom was smarter than his computer because it knew he was there and would flush when he left, while his computer had no idea he was sitting in front of it all day. That