Quotes About Awareness

Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

Executives of necessity live and work within an organization. Unless they make conscious efforts to perceive the outside, the inside may blind them to the true reality.

Effective executives know where their time goes.

When a change in perception takes place, the facts do not change. Their meaning does.

What does it feel like to be a frog perceiving the world

You must remember how many years we weren't even allowed to talk about AIDS here," my mother reminds me. "It was all a dreadful secret. Herbert Ushewekunze, the minister of health, issued an edict, a ministerial fatwa, that there was to be absolutely no publicity at all. And later he died of it himself.

I just read an article on the dangers of heavy drinking...scared the hell out of me. So that's it, after today...no more reading

People do not reconsider," Langer observes, "what they mindlessly accepted as true."14

We can keep the tests and other potentially distracting elements in mind, but we have to keep our heads up further than that as we deal with the moment-to-moment interactions with students.

Make a picture in your mind." She then asks, "How many of you do that? Karla, your hand went up really quickly. Would you have done that back in March?

Ansioso observaba sus propios pensamientos, siempre dispuesto a frenarlos. No quería olvidar ya nada más y repetía mentalmente los momentos recién pasados, como se repasan las palabras de una lengua extraña.

Oler el pan, la ginebra, plegar el papel… esa es la salvación.

Solo sufre por lo que no sabe. Lo que sabe, le deja indiferente. Si sabe algo de algo, pero no puede llegar a saber qué es y cómo es, entonces eso le atrae y tiene ganas de saber más. Lo inalcanzable seduce.

Who's calling? Don't insult me like that, the voice says. I stop. Was I just insulting?

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

Usually I said nothing at all; as a waiguoren I was often most comfortable when I was listening.

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it's highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed.

Mileage craziness is a serious condition that exists in many forms. It can hit unsuspecting travelers while driving cars, motorcycles, riding in planes, crossing the country on bicycles or on foot. The symptoms may lead to obsessively placing more importance on how many miles are traveled than on the real reason for the traveling...On foot, in a van, on a fleet motorcycle or on a bicycle, a person must be very careful not to become overly concerned with arriving.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Earthly life is full of soporifics, anaesthetics, pain-dullers. In fact, compared with Purgatory our whole life on earth will appear to have been life only half awake. In Purgatory we will be fully awake, fully sensitive, and fully cognizant of the evil of all of our sins. Our clear knowledge of God's brightness and beauty will make our clear knowledge of our own darkness and ugliness more painful than any similar light that shows up our most terrible defects here on earth.

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

As Buddha said, "All that we are is determined by our thoughts.