Quotes About Awareness

there seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart.

I truly believe that a lot of what I perceive as deliberate cruelty is based on ignorance.

Only if we can understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Spring, about the horrific damage caused by the use of DDT." "That book really did help start a movement," I agreed. "The right book or the right film at the right time really can change the culture. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is another example. Books like Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy have

No puede pasar un día sin una repercusión tuya en el mundo que te rodea. Tus acciones marcan una diferencia y tú decides que tipo de diferencia quieres marcar.

think that wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and

That there's intelligence in all life

eco-anxiety.

You see what you want to see, And you hear what you want to hear. You dig?

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Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

For me God was something within that allowed me, occasionally, to see.

I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

He half believed [...] that love was capable of killing a person, and that even a worm, digesting the particularly bitter juices, could distinguish a dead corpse from love.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to "get into their world.

counting how many times their hearts beat in a minute. This was called taking your pulse.

You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister — or from reading my book.

Your eye knows it sees, though it cannot see itself except through the use of reflection. In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three-dimensional reality.

Guilt is the other side of compassion. Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. Guilt in that respect therefore has a strong natural basis, and when it is perverted, misused or misunderstood, it has that great terrifying energy of any runaway basic phenomenon.

I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. As

What do you think of yourself, your daily life, your body, your relationship with others? Ask yourself these questions. Write down the answers or speak them into a recorder. But in one way or another objectify them.

You prefer to identify with the part of you who watches television or cooks or works — the part you think knows what it is doing. But

You must again realize that we speak of the self as being so divided only for simplicity's sake. While the self is whole, it is however compartmentalized for efficiency's sake, but beneath consciousness the doors are open. Again, the conscious self is most necessary. However it cannot be stressed too strongly that consciousness is merely a state of focus, and not a self. Consciousness is the direction in which the self looks at any given time.

My message to the reader will be: "Basically, you are no more of a physical personality than I am, and in telling you of my reality I tell you of your own." There