Quotes About Awareness

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

I too have drunk and seen the spider

I see a similarity between dogs and me. Dogs are the true observers walking up and down the world thru the Molloy country.

and balancing on eye beams/ above a sea of faces/ paces his way/ to the other side of day

Blink at the sunned scratch and stumble into silence

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

Empathy involves at least emotional sensitivity to others and at most an ability to understand another's point of view.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

El contraste, por lo tanto, no se establecía solo con la fuerza bruta, sino también con la imprudencia de todos aquellos que no eran capaces de captar las señales de peligro y que eran incapaces de pensar en las posibles consecuencias de sus actos.

THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.

Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.

The story is not about someone else. It is not even about you. It is you. The one who "lives" in the dream is the one who dreams. Just as the dream softly pulses beneath everyday waking-noticeable only when the din and clatter of daytime is stilled by sleep-so the one who remembers a dream brings a new facet to waking.

Genesis' saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face and a body, arms and legs, but that at the time of the creation of the first man and woman, human beings did not know or care about a tangible likeness, about the fact that they had bodies. The awareness of them is an invention of the human self, idolatrously preoccupied with wanting something to look at in the mirror.

But we must not think that just because we have words for all the parts of a tree, a tree really has all those parts. The leaf does not know, for instance, when it stops being a leaf and becomes a twig. And the trunk is not aware that it has stopped being a trunk and has become the roots. Indeed, the roots do not know when they stop being roots and become soil, nor the soil the moisture, nor the moisture the atmosphere, nor the atmosphere the sunlight." (pp 54-55)

Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.

We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings we frequently marshal to conceal deeper layers of our psyche.

What first occurs to us on remembering the dream/reading the text may be the most important thing.

If the human species is differentiated from the beasts by the marvel of consciousness, then we enact our humanity and the very authenticity of our being by straining to "know" through awareness the "unthinkable" experience of others.

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake.

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

It's really the striving-the person becomes aware that whatever he is striving for becomes the cost.