Quotes About Awareness

Fear. Things invisible, and the visible effects by which we know them.

I look for omens everywhere, because they are everywhere to be found.

for a moment, all bells ring true.

Drawings are the product of intense observation, not intellectual interpretation.

Every age has had its darkness and its dangers. The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and respond appropriately to them.

I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

once an experience is fully in awareness, fully accepted, then it can be coped with effectively, like any other clear reality.

We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.

I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.

letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience.

It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature.

The best way I can state this aim of life, as I see it coming to light in my relationship with my clients, is to use the words of Soren Kierkegaar —"to be that self which one truly is.

The term "congruent" is one I have used to describe the way I would like to be. By this I mean that whatever feeling or attitude I am experiencing would be matched by my awareness of that attitude. When this is true, then I am a unified or integrated person in that moment, and hence I can be whatever I deeply am. This is a reality which I find others experience as dependable.

To respond to our times we must first understand our times.

if you don't ever find yourself recalibrating your decisions, you're likely ignoring some issues that might become problems down the line.

If we want to take control of our finances, we also have to take responsibility for the many unnecessary purchases we've made--and understand that nothing will change unless we change our behavior.

Budgeting isn't just about numbers. It's about awareness.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Why do human egos seem so threatened by the thought that other animals think and feel? Is it because acknowledging the mind of another makes it harder to abuse them?

People have told me that a wolf looks right through you. But you know what I realize? That's because a wolf isn't interested in you. It's always hard for humans to accept that we're not the most important thing anyone's ever seen.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.