Quotes About Awareness

Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.

Culturally we are taught to disregard our gut instinct. But it is a crucial element of our ability to face and cope with traumatic situations.

I believe we are most alive when we are being thought about by others who love us.

The Private Life of the Brain (New York: John Wiley, 2000); John McCrone's Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of Consciousness (London: Faber and Faber, 1999) is a more easygoing, detailed exploration. David Hubel's Eye, Brain and Vision (San Francisco: Scientific American Library, 1988) is a fine vision of what seeing entails, presented by the scientist who did much to reveal

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Clarity of perception and thought evidently requires that we be generally aware of how our experience is shaped by the insight (clear or confused) provided by the theories that are implicit or explicit in our general ways of thinking.

The universe speaks if you will learn to listen.

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

The moment you know you know you know.

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.

Male desire is pretty steady and only dips in response to some invisible awareness of their partner's menstrual cycles. Studies in strip clubs have found that dancers' tips plunge 45 percent while they are menstruating.

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we are all built from "crooked timber"— from Immanuel Kant's famous line, "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.