Quotes About Awareness

We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the back, as Eurydice was escorting him out without his knowing.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don't a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly." "We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.

Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

The world divides between those who can watch television knowing there's an isolated jigsaw fragment lying on the floor and those who can't.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

When you are tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it" – Jeff Weiner,

Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.

what truly makes us happy is letting go of our fantasies about the future and instead engaging in the journey, in the process, and in the present moment.

My brother gave me his Pinto, but he neglected to tell me one thing: It doesn't handle well on pavement.

one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

Car quelles que soient leurs "opinions", les femmes sont opprimées. Leur antiféminisme étant a) un obstacle à la prise de conscience de leurs intérêts objectifs et b) plus directement le reflet de leur oppression dans leur subjectivité est donc l'un des moyens du maintien de cette oppression.

Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.

Don't cater to stupidity.

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

I was just 17, I did not have many illusions left, and the ones that did remain were soon to vanish.

In particular, judging one's own confidence in having seen or heard something—metacognition, or "knowing about knowing" (recall the four-point confidence scale in chapter 2)—is linked to anterior regions of prefrontal cortex.

We have rooms in ourselves. Most of them we have not visited yet. Forgotten rooms. From time to time we can find the passage. We find strange things . . . old phonographs, pictures, books . . . they belong to us, but it is the first time we have found them.