Quotes About Awareness

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?

Ich kann doch nicht verantwortlich sein für das, was war. Ich bin mitverantwortlich für das, was jetzt geschieht.

To be satisfied with what I have. Not to postpone things. That life is fragile.

Yoga isn't about change; it is about constant awareness, focus, and presence in the moment.

Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.

Unfortunately, Baillargeon (2008) is not aware of the epistemological commitments resulting from her theory. For example, Baillargeon does not address how her theory avoids the symbol-grounding problem (i.e., the problem of explaining how representative items can have meaning)

Contemporary causal representational approaches to infant development, such as Baillargeon's, represent, in this respect, a step backward because they ignore epistemological questions and are unaware of their own epistemological commitments.

First, higher mental functions are grounded in and emerge out of a practical, prereflective form of intelligence.

The completion of sensorimotor development leads to a Copernican revolution (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 21; see Smith, 1987) in the sense that, for the infant, his own action is no longer the whole of reality and instead now becomes "one object among others in a space containing them all; and actions are related together through being coordinated by a subject who begins to be aware of himself as the source of actions" (Piaget, 1970/1972a, pp.

I know—I know more than anyone—how deeply we are all connected—across time, across space, in ways that we can't yet comprehend!

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water.

The only people who really listen to an argument are the neighbours.

The good thing about pain is it lets you know you're still alive.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

A VOLUNTEER is a person who is a light to others, giving witness in a mixed-up age, doing well and willingly the tasks at hand-namely, being aware of another's needs and doing something about it.