Quotes About Awareness

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there

He was watching me scientifically; there was no emotion in him at all. There was an assessing gleam in the hooded black eyes, a satiric set to his mouth, and I knew with fatal clarity that I had been duped. The rapturous tenderness was only a ploy to win my response

Rachel, it's been nearly two hours." "Oh." She looked surprised. "I'm sorry.

She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.

many people are good at talking and bad at understanding

Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.

do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves

damos mil caídas y tropiezos y erramos el camino por no poner los ojos -como digo- en el verdadero camino. Parece que nunca se anduvo, según se nos hace nuevo.

People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.

The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.

Before you open your mouth," I tell him, "I want you to stop and think. Ask yourself: 'What is the thing I'm about to say going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

relational mindfulness—stopping for a brief moment and centering ourselves. Observing, just as in all forms of mindfulness, the thoughts, feelings, impulses that arise—and choosing something different.

The real work of relationships is not occasional, or even daily: it is minute-to-minute. In this triggered moment right now, which path am I going to take? Rather than being overridden by your history, you can stop, pause, and choose.

we humans cannot be surgical with our feelings. If you open up to one feeling, they all come. Cheryl is knocking hard on Paul's door. But opening up his heart to her means reopening the door he firmly closed as a child. He is routinely subject to emotions, but he doesn't have the tools to identify them.

Cognitive science teaches us that what we think of as ourselves derives not from a direct experience but from a collage of sensations and images—self-representations, pictures we have of ourselves.

In this regard, we are all a type of narcissist. None of us sees ourselves directly—our self-perceptions are filtered through acquired knowledge.

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

Paul, as a child, missed out on synchronicity.

true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses.