Quotes About Awareness

Surely human consciousness would take a big leap forward if our wish to hear and understand were as great as our wish to be heard and understood.

To obey this rule, we must become sleepwalkers. We must not see clearly, think precisely, or remember freely. The amount of creative, intellectual, and sexual energy that is trapped by this need to repress anger and remain unaware of its sources is simply incalculable.

It is amazing how frequently we march off to battle without knowing what the war is all about.

Just as physical pain tells us to get our hands out of the fire, our fear tells us—once we've been burned—to be cautious about fire the next time around. The fight-or-flight response that

God didn't put me on this street to provide disability awareness training to everyone who happens by. In fact, no god put anyone anywhere for any reason, if you want to know.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way.

Right now this feels like everything. Right now it always is. It's only afterwards that we can see there's more than this. You can be informed by this without being formed by this just as a calm before the storm there is a dark before the dawn in this.

Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects' minds, often not at all.

Every prospect hopes you will heed the old New England proverb: "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

feel a rush of something. Pride, I think. I'm not always good at naming my feelings – it's something I used to practice

When I die - die properly, I mean - I'd want to feel the whole process. I'd want my ordinary seconds to expand, suddenly, to hours, so that I could watch, one by one, as my cells figured out that things weren't working any more. As, one by one, they drew the curtains, flipped the lights, slipped quietly away into the dark.

I don't know what the point of mirrors is. They tell you what you already know.

One has to be aware that human beings are involved in all these cases.

To be self-reliant is to recognize that no one else is as concerned about your future as you are and that no one knows as much about you as you do.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

You cannot possibly remember anything you do not observe; and it is extremely difficult to observe or remember anything that you do not want to remember, or that you are not interested in remembering.

Ordinarily, there'd be no way to picture a name like Bentavagnia (pronounced bent-a-vane-ya). But you can picture, say, a bent weather vane. And bent vane has to remind you of Bentavagnia! The Substitute Word system will work beautifully to help you remember names. Applying it will force you to listen to, pay attention to, concentrate on that name—to be Originally Aware of

One of the fundamentals of a trained memory is what we call Original Awareness. Anything of which you are Originally Aware cannot be forgotten. And, applying our systems of association will force Original Awareness. Observation is essential to Original Awareness—anything you wish to remember must first be observed.

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

Since association forces Original Awareness—and since being Originally Aware is the same as having something register in your mind in the first place, at the moment it occurs—then forming an instant association must solve the problem of absentmindedness.