Quotes About Awareness

How do we expect people to participate in something they don't understand?

We can't afford to be Pollyannas or blind ourselves to real dangers, but we also should try not to succumb to despair. If we believe our vision for what our country is is worth fighting for, then we should fight for it. This is our right and duty as citizens.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally." - Dan Reynold

An artist on Esperance had once said to me, "Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

You have to live to really know things, my love

Wherever you are, make sure you're there.

your attention is the most valuable property you can ever possess.

The GAP is a habit. It's a habit we can fall into literally hundreds of times per day. We can spend hours each day in the GAP—unhappy, resentful, regretful.

Odadaki file i?aret eden, kral?n ç?plakl???n? gören ki?iydi. (Kurt Vonnegut)

Your normal state is hypervigilance. That's your baseline. What is not familiar to you is any kind of respite. If you catch yourself relaxing even for one moment, you always try to find some way to fuck it up.

subjectivity of experience presupposes an apprehension of the distinction between one's own experiences and the experience of others,

In short, there is a difference between asking about the property the object is experienced as having (how does the surface of a table feel differently from the surface of an ice cube?) and asking about the property of the experience of the object (what is the experiential difference between perceiving and imagining an ice cube?).

I may be dead, but I ain't stupid.

The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted. The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.

Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other people's lives more seriously.

Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.

Notice the way the dirt feels under your feet, how great the air smells, how beautiful the trees are, how calm and majestic." He snorted, and she could tell he was fighting not to roll his eyes as he asked, "Calm as opposed to what? All the other trees that run around like headless chickens?

You can't just walk up to a stand of unsuspecting oaks and start touching. They'd think you're getting fresh with them.

She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life.

How do you know when you're getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn't it?

WE MUST USE OUR SENSE OF REASON AND NOT SHUT THAT OFF BECAUSE IT CONFLICTS WITH THE OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA.

think it's doing yourself a lot of good to go out and exercise on these hazy days? think again. you might as well sit down... and smoke a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.