Quotes About Awareness

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Cei care cred ca inteligenta are vreo noblete, cu siguranta ca n-au destula pentru a-si da seama ca nu e decat un blestem.

CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sînt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this encroaching on me: cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness...It's impossible to live if you're too aware, too thoughtful. Take nature for example: everything that lives happily and too a ripe old age is not very intelligent. Tortoises live for centuries, water's immortal, and Milton Friedman's still alive.

De ce nu mai ai prieteni? - Au muceg?it. Nu remarcasem c? au o dat? de expirare. Trebuie s? fii atent la asta. Prietenii mei au început s? aib? urme de putregai, pete verzi destul de scîrboase. Ceea ce spuneau începea cu-adev?rat s? miroas? r?u...

Pourquoi n'as-tu plus d'amis ? - Ils ont moisi. Je n'avais pas remarqué qu'ils avaient une date de péremption. Il faut faire attention à ça. Mes amis ont commencé à avoir des traces de pourriture, des taches vertes assez dégoûtantes. Ce qu'ils disaient commençait vraiment à sentir mauvais... ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p210)

Eu cred c? s? fii inteligent este mai r?u decât s? fii prost, pentru c? un prost nu-ÅŸi d? seama ce-i cu el, pe când cineva inteligent, chiar dac?-i umil ÅŸi modest tot o ÅŸtie.

Once you crack the code, every building, every field, every street becomes more significant, more fascinating, more revealing. And with each new discovery, you learn more about yourself.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

It may not look like much, not with all these other distractions, but we make things holy by the kind of attention we give them.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

One's own belief in human excellence is one of the ultimate signs of the skewness that man himself has invented, his role in everything. Sublimely, however, we are aware of our own coming doom through a quick glance at the world around us.

Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

There is just reality as it is: a unified being of infinite awareness that is playing with itself as an expression of itself. Everything and everyone in all places and times is merely God interacting with itself, and It is You.

Always remember that it's the ego that wants to know and identify everything that is taking place and that this desire is an unnecessary distraction from the real work.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

you'll start to see that how you think about yourself, others, and objects, and the world in general, will start to shift to fit with your new patterns of expression.

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind