Quotes About Awareness

Your body knows in all its parts, when 'used to' starts, when nothing will ever be the way it's been. Your body knows first. Takes your 'you' weeks to catch up.

it's not realistic to think we can fill our minds with corrupting images yet hang on to what we know is right. When we continually expose our minds to the standards of the culture, those standards begin to seep into our lives. The fatal change comes so gradually that, like the frog in the kettle, we don't even notice it. First we are no longer shocked by evil. Then we become accustomed to it. Then we tolerate it. Then it's only a tiny step to accept it as normal.

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

rooted in 'the forgetting of Being'.

In fallenness one drifts along with the fads and trends of the crowd, caught up in the mindless busy-ness, and tranquillized by the secure feeling that everyone else is doing the same thing; things in general seem to have been worked out by us. Heidegger says that, in its fallenness, Dasein 'becomes blind to all its possibilities, and tranquillizes itself with that which is merely "actual"'. In its simplest form, fallenness is the non-awareness of what it means to be.

Do not wait till tomorrow to be wise, For tomorrow's sun may never rise.

We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.

Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye on Bannon; Kushner kept constant tabs on the whereabouts of the others.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do, true, it is often something bad, but one has to at least admire the fact that they're thinking at all.

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

we instinctively zero in on dangers that are unusual or immediate, while paying much less attention to hazards that unfold more slowly or in a more familiar way.

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.