Quotes About Awareness

Empathy means challenging your preconceived ideas and setting aside your sense of what you think is true in order to learn what actually is true. that people aren't conscious of.

Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.

Zeg nooit: ik heb mij zitten vervelen. Zeg: verveling maakte een relevant onderdeel uit van de opgeroepen emoties.

I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

You all want to be the hero in the film who runs away in slo-mo from the villain's factory that he's just mined, throwing himself to the ground as it explodes. But the explosion's taking place already—it's always been taking place. You just didn't notice Ã¢â'¬Â¦

He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

The unexamined life isn't worth the high price that you must pay for it.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

reality, the name we give to the common experience.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.

There is a simple mantra you can carry about you in traffic: When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard. Most crashes, after all, happen on dry roads, on clear, sunny days, to sober drivers.