Quotes About Awareness

L'élément tragique pour l'homme moderne, ce n'est pas qu'il ignore le sens de sa vie, mais que ça le dérange de moins en moins.

I haven't thought about her for nearly twenty minutes. With a bit of practice, I might make it to thirty.

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

You have to think ahead, if you want to live, look around to see what you have, what to use to begin your new life.

Silence is the indispensable climate for all revelation; noise renders it absolutely impossible.

One should not poke one's nose into places where Nature does not want the presence of man.

As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconciously to the soughing of the trees.

The more I got to know you, the more I began to see that something was missing. Something I had convinced myself that I didn't need.

While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves.

A yawn is a silent scream.

We need to name the issue. What are the practical steps? Many steps have much in common. •Be clearly aware of the specific. •Remember to breathe mindfully through the desire and explore alternatives to the desire. •Remain one-pointed to overcome the issue. •Be willing to keep working with the issue on a daily basis. •Use our imagination to generate change. •Seek the kind support of others in the process.

Learning to be with our experience is not easy. It can feel counterintuitive, like the last thing one should sensibly do. Hearing our thoughts can be even scarier. It can help to recognize that we are not our thoughts, and that we don't have to act out our thoughts. We don't have to believe our thoughts. We don't have to identify with our thoughts.

People with BPD judge themselves harshly all the time and find judgments lurking around the corner of every raised eyebrow, sneeze, yawn, or shoulder shrug. You must be acutely aware of how your responses can be misconstrued as judgments.

Western culture does not encourage validating someone's emotional responses, as emotional awareness of daily interactions is counterintuitive to how we normally react. In today's fast-paced society we often do not take the time to notice or acknowledge people's feelings or the efforts they are making to do their jobs. We tend to notice these things even less with the people who are closest to us.

Live each day and close your eyes each night with the knowledge that you've spent the hours well. That's all any of us can do.

On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones, and besides, the male knows that an enlightened, aware female population will mean the end of him. The healthy, conceited female wants the company of equals whom she can respect and groove on; the male and the sick, insecure, unself-confident male female crave the company of worms.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

It is a grave mistake to think that the Inquisition or the Southern lynchings or the Rwandan genocide were committed by people who were fundamentally different from us. Soul-scarred Vietnam veterans have tried repeatedly to tell us: You don't know what you're capable of until you are there. Only when all of us recognize our own potential for evil, do we have some power to guard against it.

What did you forget I existed?

Think ere you speak

It is the everyday moments that are most important to savor because they are the most common. If you hold your breath to savor only the off-the-charts amazing moments that happen in life, you'll spend most of your life waiting on those moments to arrive. If instead you open your eyes to the miracle and gift of each moment, happiness is bound to follow you all the days of your life. So

Savoring special moments as they happen is an important happiness skill. Sometimes we miss out on what life is really about because we are never actually living in the present.

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.