Quotes About Awareness

What Your Speed Means

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

Though there are exceptions, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism tend to stress desirable states of consciousness, escaping the fretful, self-aware state of mind that so often makes everyday living a burden. For mystics from the Abrahamic faiths, however, the inward odyssey is also an upward odyssey, a quest for personal and vital communion with an infinite Being.

Everyone is told just as much as he needs to know, including the self.

If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Too often people tend to think about what they'll say next when someone else is speaking. I developed a practice of listening all the way through and waiting three seconds to respond—it's amazing how that small change allows you to really hear what someone is saying . . . or not saying.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

Listen to the crickets," she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.

Are we playing Faster Fingers or are we thinking?" Faster Fingers was their code for supplanting brain/memory with Google Search.

I now understand that deja vu is the awareness of the simultaneous occurrence of a nearly identical event in an alternate universe as perceived by another version of yourself. That haunting sense of unreality and the flimsiness of time, of identity itself, is a window through which we glimpse another world.

Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

Apocalyptic shows us what we're not seeing. It can't be composed or spoken by the powers that be, because they are the sustainers of "the way things are" whose operation justifies itself by crowning itself as "the way things ought to be" and whose greatest virtue is in being "realistic." Thinking through what we mean by "realistic" is where apocalyptic begins.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn't aware of his fear.

Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere. The stress of not finding it creates its own need to be released. And so the cycle continues. You are chasing your own tail, and much of the time that tail looks suspiciously like a woman.

We understand the fabric of reality only by understanding theories that explain it. And since they explain more than we are immediately aware of, we can understand more than we are immediately aware that we understand.