Quotes About Awareness

Wonder. There is wonder in you, along with a little impatience. You are standing outside of yourself, looking at yourself, conscious of a rhythm within yourself, several rhythms, and the sound of drums from far away.

one client who went out of their way to regularly thank the team when they said 'no'—as this client had suffered the effects of wishful thinking all too often.

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing.

And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.

A tree doesn't know it's a tree. It doesn't know how pretty its flowers are, or how beautiful they smell, or how soft and sweet its fruit is. It can't feel how warm I am with my arms around it. It can't hear me when I tell it these things. It doesn't know anything. I'm glad you're not a tree.

and it's right on the spot. In fact, it

To stop expecting other people to behave like we do is actually a two-step process: first we have to realize that we have this expectation, and second we have to start expecting the local people to simply be themselves. The first step, realizing we expect others to be like us, is in many ways the most difficult, for it requires that we somehow become aware of behavior that is completely subconscious.

people who have the least contact with the locals are often the most critical of them.

Because of our cultural conditioning, we not only think our actions are normal, the way everyone behaves; we also think what we do is right, the way everyone should behave. We therefore regard any behavior that is different from ours as wrong. Naturally, this puts cultural incidents into a whole new light.

The avid walker Henry David Thoreau said in 1851, "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

Actually, Dan," I answer, "you're asking me to be a mind reader, and no, teachers don't get paid for that. Think about it. If you don't even know when you are stuck, how am I supposed to know?

I'm sick and tired of you telling the class that it's our job to know when we know and know when we don't know You're the teacher. Aren't you the one who is supposed to know

They made the same mistakes over and over again because they weren't conscious of what they were doing.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomfortable. They're worse, more dangerous than those who speak their minds, because they don't know what they're capable of.

That we can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead, only when we're alive we don't have the time, or the peace of mind, or the inclination to see and understand what we could. We're too busy rushing to our graves.

Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

And then there are a lot of people who come here because they actually want to try to do something good in this country. In my case, I was working at a newspaper in Sinaloa for years, trying to report on the drug war, trying to make people there aware of what was happening in their own backyard, but my bosses only had an appetite for the macabre. They kept sending me out to take photos of crime scenes that they'd plaster

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

One thing about the greenhouse effect that makes it so difficult for some of us to take seriously is that it's invisible.