Quotes About Awareness

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019

The true answer to seduction is to open people's eyes to the shallowness of the "beauty" on offer. The

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

Light is all memory.

Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.

Mental illness and substance abuse destroyed my family. Watching and caring for loved ones battle these diseases shaped my life. Now I have an opportunity and the platform to change the conversation around mental health from one that condemns and diminished those suffering, to one of empathy and support.

The Buddha proclaimed sunyata, or Emptiness, to be the underlying nature of all phenomena, a web of causal relationships that the philosopher-poet Octavio Paz referred to as a "fathomless abyss above which metaphysical thought flaps its wings." In the Buddhist Tantras, this "truth that does not itself exist" and the concurrent freedom from self-identity is celebrated as the birth of a radiant, compassionate awareness, often symbolized by luminous multiarmed deities.

The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

We are what we believe we are at given times.

Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions o right and wrong imposed by others, particlarly members of the ofen eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media.

the first place you go blind is in the eyes

If you never bothered to to look or see anything much you wouldn't be worrying' "I'd have to be very dumb to be like that" "Then be dumb, see nothing, hear nothing

And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.

Hay quienes dicen que este país es amnésico y reacio a afrontar su historia. Quizás no se equivocan.

I think as a writer you always have to be 'present' in what you write.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are Believe In Yourself.

One should not make more assumptions than are absolutely necessary.

you cannot plunge in blindly…lest you miss the forest for the trees and there be no end to your labors.

But there is a truth here; seeing is magical. Looking kills. The longer I looked, the more the magic faded.

Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it can't see them, can't process them, fills in the space where they are by folding up the visual map around them., putting things on either side next to each other, like the blind spot in the eye.

And?" "Ah." She was not certain whether it was the room's heartbeat she was hearing, or her own. "Would you like to sit down?" Her voice sounded as if coming from kilometers away as she said, "No. Thank you.