Quotes About Awareness

When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

My sixth sense uses the other five senses to communicate. I may have a vision, hear a sound, get a smell, or have a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed. What I do revolves around noticing subtle differences in my mind and body - because they're messages.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But sometimes—more often than we tend to realize—those difficult people are us.

Frankl's quote pops into my mind again. He's making space between stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

Once we know what we're feeling, we can make choices about where we want to go with them.

take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"), his

They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them because they hold important clues.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea. We knew that our supervisor was trying to tell us something important. But we didn't have time to think about it.

Sometimes people can't identify their feelings because they were talked out of them as children.

What makes therapy challenging is that it requires people to see themselves in ways they normally choose not to.

You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

It turns out that most of us aren't aware of how we actually spend our time or what we really do all day until we break it down hour by hour and say it out loud.

not that she's hiding her feelings; it's that she can't access them. There's a word for this kind of emotional blindness: alexithymia. She doesn't know what she's feeling or doesn't have the words to express it.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.