Quotes About Awareness

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.

When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

Cyclists need to obey the Highway Code, not run red lights, and not ride with iPods on, and motorists need to be more respectful and look out for cyclists.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.