Quotes About Awareness

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

We can never know everything," Holmes said, "but I fear that everything knows us.

to expand your awareness of your own healing energy and potent life spirit.

The surest symptoms of a wasted life are breathing, a pulse, and thinking...

We need the darkness to appreciate the light, and the bumps along the road to stop us falling asleep at the wheel.

Sometimes I wake at night and worry that I might have disappeared in my sleep. That's what happens when nobody cares about you. Bit by bit you begin to disappear until people look right through your chest and head like you're made of glass. It's not about love; it's about being forgotten. We only exist if others think about us. It is like that tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it. Who the fuck cares except the birds?

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

I was so worried about rocking the boat, I failed to spot the iceberg.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

I think that sometimes you can forget what the truth is if you hear a lie often enough.

How does anyone know what's true or real? Things we once accepted as facts are now accepted as being wrong. The earth is not flat, smoking isn't good for us, Pluto isn't a planet, witches weren't burnt at the stake in Salem, and humans have more than five senses. Everything has a half-life—even facts.

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.

Possessing a theory of mind means that an individual ascribes mental states, such as purpose, intention, knowledge, beliefs, doubts, pretending, liking, and so forth, to himself and to others.

I am not suggesting that single cells are conscious. I am suggesting that they may have some type of processing that is necessary or similar to the processing that results in conscious experience.

John-Dylan Haynes22 and his colleagues expanded Libet's experiments in 2008 to show that the outcomes of an inclination can be encoded in brain activity up to ten seconds before it enters awareness! The brain has acted before its person is conscious of it. Not only that, from looking at the scan, they can make a prediction about what the person is going to do. The implications of this are rather staggering.

This incessant interplay between cognition and feelings, which is to say between cortical and subcortical modules, produces what we call consciousness.