Quotes About Awareness

You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're not needed. In a sense, it's as if there's nothing more to do.

This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen.

La idea es conseguir que quien compra tu libro se sienta un poco menos infeliz porque ahora sabe que es un infeliz, a diferencia de todos los demás, que son tan infelices que ni siquiera saben que lo son.

Y cómo se supone que uno puede ser «comprensivo» antes de comprender?

This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen. When I walk down the street, my experience is of looking. Manifest to myself in the ethereal privacy of my head, I grow alarmed when presented with evidence of my public body.

at the University of Ottawa in Canada, a yoga teacher was shamed into suspending her class, "because yoga originally comes from India." She offered to retitle the course "Mindful Stretching.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individual's personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under the rapidity of the assault of events. What once occupied all our minds and filled the musty meeting halls with the awareness of heroism and destiny has now become chiefly a matter for the historical scholar.

By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.

perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Keep listening. With open ears, you will be one of the few who learn.

Suddenly I'm no longer aware of the people around us, just the feel and the warmth and the scent of Daniel, and the way he's holding me near to him

girls know when they're stepping over a boundary and find it strange when adults seem not to notice.

People fear what they don't understand.

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be "channeling" someone else's thoughts and feelings.

Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.