Quotes About Awareness

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

Know something too late? Well, is better you never know, as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

Look up more than you look around.

New perspectives help us connect the dots.

Exposure is the enemy's greatest weakness. As long as we believe there is no Satan, no demons and no enemy, he's got us where he wants us.

The 4Rs: Recognize. Release. Respond. Receive.

I know nothing. (based on James 4:14)

Ain't lost unless yus don't know where yus are," Jim grumbled. "I know'd where we are, it's jest that no one else does.

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

There's never a good time for Mindfulness, and there's never a bad time. Mindfulness is one of those things you simply do, because if you practice being aware - completely open to the universe, just exactly as it is - you will transform your life in time.

I didn't know! I was here with you all the time. How could I know you were so alone?

How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?

Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

NVC heightens our awareness that what others say and do may be the stimulus, but never the cause, of our feelings. We see that our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment. With this third component, we are led to accept responsibility for what we do to generate our own feelings.

However, what lingered in my mind was that one person's dissatisfaction. We tend to notice what's wrong rather than what's right.

There is a story of a man on all fours under a street lamp, searching for something. A policeman passing by asked what he was doing. "Looking for my car keys," replied the man, who appeared slightly drunk. "Did you drop them here?" inquired the officer. "No," answered the man, "I dropped them in the alley." Seeing the policeman's baffled expression, the man hastened to explain, "But the light is much better here.

The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

I've just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that I never once clearly told him what I needed.

When our consciousness is focused on what we need, we are naturally stimulated toward creative possibilities for how to get that need met. In contrast, the moralistic judgements we use when blaming ourselves tend to obscure such possibilities and perpetuate a state of self-punishment.

Somos peligrosos cuando no somos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad hacia cómo nos comportamos, pensamos y sentimos.

It's not what you do that counts, it's the quality of your attention.

the dangers of a language that implies absence of choice

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.