Quotes About Awareness

What had we talked about and why hadn't I paid attention?

Would the teacher take note of my bulging eyes or comment on the thin strand of saliva hanging like fishing wire from the corner of my mouth?

Cancer is a disease of the Western lifestyle

I began experimenting with visualizing the rising sun coming up in people's chests as I talked with them. It began to transform my listening.

Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

The medium by which the suicide contagion spread was mass media.

And the scariest thing—a superintelligent AI would be smart enough to hide what it was until it was too late.

Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.

Desde los doce años tengo la vista cansada, cansada de ver tanta estupidez alrededor

Como no tengo sueños no me doy de bruces con la realidad. Que funcione un semáforo ya me parece el colmo de los logros humanos

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

It was also horribly embarrassing, and the fact that none of them knew she could sense their emotions only made it worse. It was as if she stood outside their windows, listening to whispered conversations they'd never meant to share with her, and the fact that she had no choice—that she could no longer not sense the feelings of those about her—only made her feel perversely guilty when she did.

a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.

need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense

all that was necessary for evil to triumph was for good men—and women—to do nothing.

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

one small thing I've learned these years, how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.

Right after you wake up, remain completely motionless and ask yourself, "What was just happening to me? Where was I? Who was I talking to? What was going on?" This is the key to remembering any dream. If you ask yourself, "What was I just dreaming?" you are not likely to get anywhere, because your dream will have seemed completely real as you went through it.

In this situation, the perception of reality is unitary, without ego and with a lack of any duality.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.