Quotes About Awareness

People calculate too much and think too little.

All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial One should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you're trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

I couldn't figure out how the seat belt worked. Then it just clicked.

Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

But again He is equally present in sudden unexpected moments, and it is the neglect of these moments that is the most fruitful source of disbelief in Him.

don't believe in these things. There's London and us and the things we know.

Everything lovely in you for a perpetual companion, so that you'd never be frightened or disappointed or ashamed any more. There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

When what you write about is what you see, what do you write about when it's dark? from "32

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

You forget that your life is a short window, that you are stuck in the present, forget how your life is still here, waiting for you, wondering where you are, going on without you. You forget that people know who you are, think about you, might even be happy to see you

Move forward, into the empty plane. Find the book you wrote, and read it until the end, but don't turn the last page yet, keep stalling, see how long you can keep expanding the infinitely expandable moment. Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad.

What are you looking for? Do you think you're the only group to be invisible? How about: Older women Older people in general People that are overweight People that don't conform to conventional Western beauty standards Black women Women in general in the workplace Are you sure you're not looking for something that you feel entitled to? Isn't this a kind of narcissism?

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer

the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be the performer and observer of the same show.

Or rather, a dialogue, between myself and my future self, in which my future self is telling my present self what I have already finished thinking but have not yet realized I thought. This is consistent with Libet (1983).

She doesn't look at me, but I feel, or maybe I wish or I imagine, that something in the way that she does not look at me is not quite the same. She is not-looking at me in a way that feels like she is consciously not-looking at me. And from the way she is not-looking at me, I can tell she knows that I am trying to not-look at her. We are both not-looking at each other. And yet, there is something in the way she is not-looking at me. For the first time in a long while, I have hope.