Quotes About Awareness

The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an "I" that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of "self feeling.

In Psychological Types, Jung suggested two contrasting ways in which people saw the world. Some people can appreciate reality only through their five senses ("sensing" types), while others wait for internal confirmation of what is true or real, relying on their unconscious. These

But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives. Psychologists

Prior to the 1980s, David Burns writes, depression had been the cancer of the psychological world—widespread but difficult to treat—and the taboos associated with it made the problem worse for most people. As

Psychologists, at least psychologists who write textbooks, not only show no interest in the origin and development of love or affection, but they seem to be unaware of its very existence.

Burns lists ten "cognitive distortions," such as all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, disqualifying the positive, jumping to conclusions, and giving ourselves labels. By understanding these distortions, we are led to the awareness that "feelings aren't facts," they are only mirrors of our thoughts.

The common route to this knowledge is life experience

since it's about drifting, forgetting, passing time without noticing. Instead, quietly pay attention...

There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham

I've always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

Life moves so fast, my friend. I am just lucky and happy to have the people I care about there along with me, watching all of this occur.

What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

Every drop in the ocean counts.