Quotes About Awareness

You'd be surprised what a guy can learn by staying quiet

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

It was like someone had turned a knob a hair to the right ... and the radio station clicked in so loud and clear it almost knocked her over .

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.

In order to know that you're dead, you have to be conscious. . . but if you're conscious, then you're not dead. the only thing you can know is being alive, so that's eternity.

Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

We are all wounded by racism, but for some of us those wounds are anesthetized. None of us, black or white, wants to feel the pain that racism has caused. But when you feel it, you're awake.

How we choose to feed our minds is just as important as what we put into our bodies. At every moment of the day we are receiving impressions through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

In my experience what goes on inside us is reflected on the outside, and vice versa. Perhaps they are two aspects of the same thing. You can either clean up your act in what we think of as the real world and this will clarify what is within, or you can work from the other direction.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Do you believe you're an outgrowth of a living sphere? A huge mass rocketing through space faster than a bullet shot out of a gun around another ball of fire? You may know it, but you don't feel it. If you did—and I mean deep in your bones—it would profoundly change the way you live your life.

Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.

All my life I have felt myself to be on the edge of things. All my life I have suffered from bad dreams. All my life I have had difficulty in knowing whether I am awake or in a nightmare.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

You can never overestimate the intelligence of the American public.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

The ego is always alert to the dangers that the unconscious may over-throw it. It may try to intellectualize away unconscious urges, inhibit them, project them onto others, or deny them. Freud