Quotes About Awareness

el hombre no debería cuestionarse sobre el sentido de la vida, sino comprender que la vida le interroga a él. En otras palabras, la vida pregunta por el hombre, cuestiona al hombre, y éste contesta de una única manera: respondiendo de su propia vida y con su propia vida.

the sudden awareness of afigure on a ground, whereas the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness

The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized.

think for some minutes about the meaning of life. Particularly about the meaning of the coming day and its meaning for me.

And to make him aware of this meaning can contribute much to his ability to overcome his neurosis.

A human being, it is true, is a finite being. However, to the extent to which he understands his finiteness, he also overcomes it.

They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the "existential vacuum.

la verdadera autorrealización sólo es el efecto profundo del cumplimiento acabado del sentido de la vida.

I think the meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us

Freedom, we repeated to ourselves, and yet we could not grasp it. We had said this word so often during all the years we dreamed about it, that it had lost its meaning. Its reality did not penetrate into our consciousness; we could not grasp the fact that freedom was ours.

rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest. Not a few

will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the "existential vacuum.

More and more I felt that she was present, that she was with me; I had the feeling that I was able to touch her, able to stretch out my hand and grasp hers. The feeling was very strong: she was there. Then, at that very moment, a bird flew down silently and perched just in front of me, on the heap of soil which I had dug up from the ditch, and looked steadily at me.

Mientras esperábamos la ducha se nos hizo patente nuestra desnudez, en su sentido literal: éramos solamente un cuerpo. Nada más. Solo poseíamos la existencia desnuda. ¿Qué

Live as if you are living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Un hombre que se vuelve consciente de su responsabilidad ante quien lo aguarda con todo su corazón, o ante una obra por terminar, nunca será capaz de tirar su vida por la borda. Conoce el porqué de su existencia y podrá soportar casi cualquier cómo.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

So conscience is essentially intuitive. To anticipate what is not yet, but is to be made real, conscience must be based on intuition. And it is in this sense that conscience may be called irrational.