Quotes About Awareness

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.

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I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too." Attavio

Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

And also because I know if I've figured it out, someone else has too, because there's always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.

You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.

They were the only people in all the universe who were not conscious. Although every creature could think and reason, it could not know itself as every other intelligent creature could know itself. The creatures lacked awareness of who they were as individuals, even as they lived and thrived and grew on the face of the moon of the planet.

I don't know that it will matter even then," Cardenia said. "I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.

Listen. I don't care if you ever think about the fact that you can always taste your mouth. You are always tasting your mouth. It's where you keep your tongue. Your tongue doesn't have an off switch. You are tasting your mouth right now, and now that I've brought it to your attention, you're probably realizing that you should probably brush or chew some gum or something. Because your mouth, by default, is a kind of a little off, tastewise.

After everything, what it all means is that if one day we slip in the bathroom and crack our head on the toilet, our last thoughts can be a satisfied, 'Well, I and only I did this to myself.

How is it so far?" asked Cloud. "How is what so far?" "This," Cloud said, and motioned around him. "Life. The universe. Everything." "It's lonely," Jared said. "Huh," Cloud said. "Didn't take you long to figure that one out.

That's a distinction that's going to make a lot of difference to the ninety percent of humanity that doesn't know the difference between astrology and astronomy

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

Then Dahl remembered that until that very second, absolutely none of that was true.

The part of Cardenia's brain in charge of gestalting slammed everything together and shoved it into her consciousness.

What we don't know can't hurt us.

I could be happy never talking about tiny skin mites ever again," I said. "They come out when you sleep, you know." "I do now, thanks for that.

the most important days of your existence don't always announce themselves in obvious ways.

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time.

All the thinking about the steps beyond what we were directly doing. It never makes you happy. It never solves anything for you, right now.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon.