Quotes About Awareness

I felt my jaw muscles moving, but no matter how carefully I listened, I did not hear myself saying anything. Brian watched me with real enjoyment for a moment before he finally spoke up.

I watched it go, and as its taillights disappeared around the corner I suddenly remembered how to breathe. I took advantage of this rediscovered knowledge, and it felt very good.

I had turned soft, smug, self-satisfied, lulled to sleep by my cushy lifestyle and the easy availability of the game in these pastures of plenty I had been hunting in for so long.

It is always nice to see the synapses clicking in a way that lets you know your opinion of yourself is sometimes justified.

It's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is. And you already know that and it's like a game for you.

Gesundheit," I told myself. But it didn't make me feel any better.

There comes a point in every conversation where at least one of the people involved has to know what is being talked about, and I decided that point had arrived.

have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.

And right now, we are not prepared for anything. That could have deadly consequences in this world.

Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it's also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy

But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over—me—might be a player in the game too. As

shark you don't see is always more dangerous than the one you do.

I could see the palm of Freddy's hand tap the butt of his Glock. We do this to reorient our muscles and nerves so we know exactly where our weapons are. Like I noted the pressure of the Baby Glock, in the small of my back. I left it in the holster for the moment. Ryan

Confused?" "Not really. To be confused you have to be paying attention.

The blow to the head, the drugs, being trapped underground? Jasper Coyle knew exactly what was happening to him. He read the papers, he watched the news.

Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

longer looking at the

He had never understood the niceties of life and it was too late to start learning now.

to be in the middle distance, and he was not perceptibly

He remained silent for the rest of the journey, having been made painfully aware that birth is life's first lottery ticket. Tom

understand the

Mindfulness may be understood as friendly, nonjudging, present-moment awareness. To succeed with this approach, you must learn and use a variety of meditation practices all directed at cultivating mindfulness.

Cultivating awareness takes effort. Changing the habits of inattention and distraction we have developed over a lifetime is hard work.