Quotes About Awareness

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all.

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

Non si apprezza il valore di quel che abbiamo mentre ne godiamo, ma appena lo perdiamo e ci manca, lo sopravvalutiamo, e gli troviamo il pregio che il possesso rendeva invisibile, fino a che era nostro.

All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

As if we were God's spies

It is a wise father who knows his own child.

depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades.

depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.

In Paris on a chilly evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind--a struggle which had engaged me for several months--might have a fatal outcome.

A lot of the literature available concerning depression is, as I say, breezily optimistic, spreading assurances that nearly all depressive states will be stabilized or reversed if only the suitable antidepressant can be found; the reader is of course easily swayed by promises of quick remedy...I am hardly able to believe that I possessed such ingenuous hope, or that I could have been so unaware of the trouble and peril that lay ahead.

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self—a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it.

The balcony is a metaphor for a mental and emotional place of perspective, calm, and self-control. If life is a stage and we are all actors on that stage, then the balcony is a place from which we can see the entire play unfolding with greater clarity. To observe our selves, it is valuable to go to the balcony at all times, and especially before, during, and after any problematic conversation or negotiation.

the secret to listening to others is to listen to ourselves first?

A human being," Einstein once wrote, "is part of the whole called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness . . .

Feelings of dissatisfaction are the language that your needs use to communicate with you.

He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN

1. Put Yourself in Your Shoes. Can you notice the inner critic at work—and simply observe your thoughts and feelings without judging? What underlying needs do your feelings point to? What do you really need? 2. Develop Your Inner BATNA. Are you blaming anyone or anything for your needs not being met? What benefit does this blame provide you—and what are the costs? Can you commit to take care of your deepest needs no matter what?

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

frown and take a step back as if he'd realized that he had just stepped up to a grizzly