Quotes About Awareness

If we no longer feel, we should be grieving our own deaths.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

But feelings are actually more like weather systems—they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn't mean you'll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

alexithymia. She doesn't know what she's feeling or doesn't have the words to express it.

flight to health is a phenomenon in which patients convince themselves that they're suddenly over their issues because, unbeknownst to them, they can't tolerate the anxiety that working through these issues is bringing up.

Feeling your sadness or anxiety can also give you essential information about yourself and your world.

our awareness of death helps us live more fully—and with less, not more, anxiety.

identifying his in-the-moment feelings, because feelings lead to behaviors. Once we know what we're feeling, we can make choices about where we want to go with them.

I particularly liked this quote from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

mistaking feeling less for feeling better.

Before you speak, ask yourself, What is this going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

Spend less time on his future, more on my present." Wendell nods,

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

When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface.

Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions.

numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

He glances toward his cell, which is vibrating again, but I don't follow his gaze. I stay with him, trying to hold on so he won't get pulled away whenever an unwanted feeling appears and go numb. People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

I particularly liked this line from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Many of us take for granted the people we love and the things we find meaningful, only to realize, when our deadline is announced, that we'd been skating by on the project: our lives.

Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.