Quotes About Awareness

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

You can not know any better and still know you don't like something" -Ruby

But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. And just because you don't remember something doesn't mean you don't miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn't mean it's normal" -Ruby

Know how to live with the time that is given you.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Thoughts walk in uninvited

there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

do not mean that the sociologist is unaware of the existence and complex nature of communications in society, but until recently he has tended to overlook the extent to which they are the cement which binds its fabric together.

I will never dream again. For I can never again forget who I am. I realized that when I couldn't escape from the pain.

Even though he saw an entire field covered with flowers, Chihaya never thought to pick them. Instead, he took me to see the place where they were blooming.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

History is a vast early warning system.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes,

Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

We have senses we don't know we have-until we lose them; balance is one that normally works so well, so seamlessly, that is not listed among the five that Aristotle described and was overlooked for centuries afterward.