Quotes About Awareness

We have too much respect for the printed word, too little awareness of the power words hold over us. We allow worlds to be conjured up for us with very little concern for the implications. We overlook glaring incongruities. We are suckers for alliteration, assonance, and rhythm. We rejoice over stories, whether fiction or "documentary," whose outcomes are flagrantly manipulative, self-serving, or both. Usually both.

To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don't.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

Life is not a dream it is a thing

I think I figured out a thing." "Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?" "Definitely one of the two,

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was. Like a perfect state of balance.

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I'm becoming more conscious about what I'm ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.

They didn't have to know what was coming, but they were always ready. They knew when to take the shot, and when to pass to someone else. When to talk, and when to stay silent. When to speed up, and when to slow down. When to respond to criticism, and when to laugh it off.

Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited. Fear heightens your awareness; it makes you alert. Doubt is the opposite; it slows you down and paralyzes your thinking.

Confidence lets you hear the voices around you and in your own head, without responding or reacting. You can hear them without listening to a single word.

This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

never let our expectations define our level of thankfulness.

Maxwell Maltz wrote, "It is conscious thinking which is the 'control knob' of your unconscious machine."31

Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

There's more kinds of pain than just physical pain, you know.

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

You know how when you see someone day in, day out, year after year, you don't really notice him getting taller or wider or older or whatever? It can be like that with the way people are on the inside too.

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

No sé por qué debería explicar lo que hago. ¿Por qué no puedo hacer exactamente lo que estoy haciendo? Es magnífico estar afuera en la madrugada, antes de que salga el sol. Te da la sensación de estar súper vivo. Eres cómplice de un secreto que toda esa gente aburrida y dormida no conoce. A diferencia de ellos, tú estás alerta y consciente de existir justo aquí, en este preciso momento entre lo que sucedió y lo que sucederá.

You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going.

The FBI was not incompetent or indifferent. It did not know what it did not know.