Quotes About Awareness

By and large, people are not that sensitive. People just imagine that they are, especially around certain topics.

Step out of your own head, and look at the world based on what's important to others.

Knowing yourself is probably the hardest job in the world.

I was just too focused on rehearsing what I wanted to say in my head, which prevented me from truly listening to others. I would listen to them, but ignore the signals and direction they were giving me and stubbornly proceed on my own path. I waited for my turn to speak

Learn how to read your conversation partner to direct the conversation.

When you prepare and focus on what you need to say next, you are the opposite of present. You are stuck in your own head, and not listening or observing at all – you're just waiting for your turn to speak. This is a very common error. The results are also very common.

Lo que pasa con la sombra es que, a pesar de que se extrae de la percepción consciente, todavía existe. De hecho, puede darse a conocer de maneras más sutiles, manifestándose en comportamientos, pensamientos y sentimientos, o apareciendo en sueños o momentos de descuido. Si somos capaces de observar y comprender estos signos externos en los demás, podemos obtener una visión profunda de su carácter.

These labels, usually not carefully chosen or given much thought, go on to form your beliefs. These are hazards with relatively accurate and descriptive labels—what about when you unwittingly use labels that are ambiguous, inconsistent, or inaccurate?

High emotional intelligence is like being able to read someone's mind.

Emotional intelligence is when you understand what someone is trying to convey through their words or body language, and you understand what you yourself are conveying to others through the same.

Thinking and contents are to be left alone. The "I" is not to intervene as if it exercised mastery over these contents.

the only correct approach, is to attend to the anger so that you may learn what it is. Anger is nothing you have been told.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.

We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

we human beings are not capable of multitasking. None of us are.

Je crois qu'on entend encore dans les entrées d'immeubles l'écho des pas de ceux qui avaient l'habitude de les traverser et qui, depuis, ont disparu. Quelque chose continue de vibrer après leur passage, des ondes de plus en plus faibles, mais que l'on capte si l'on est attentif.

The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?

citise undeva ca prima intalnire intre doua persoane este ca o rana usoara pe care o simte fiecare, trezindu-se din singuratate si din amorteala." Patrick Modiano, Orizontul, Humanitas 2015

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.

There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?