Quotes About Awareness

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.

Emotional approach and awareness should be used when the emotions are below some manageable level of arousal, say 70%, but distraction and regulation should be applied when they exceed this level and the emotions become unmanageable. In

The unfolding of phenomena is dependent on ignorance.

Experience itself is convention and we are outside of experience.

The mind knows what it is doing and meets itself.

There is no relation between using the mind — as one does, in repairing shoes, and seeing it.

Our emotions always serve a purpose, like the warning lights on a car dashboard. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away, and often ignoring our feelings only makes the problem worse.

It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

you cannot change something you will not face.

There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be--not just always do.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.