Quotes About Awareness

Parla ora prima che sia troppo tardi, e poi spera di continuare a parlare finché non ci sarà niente da dire. Dopotutto, il tempo sta esaurendo. Forse è meglio mettere da parte le tue storie per ora e provare ad analizzare come sia stato vivere in questo corpo dal primo giorno in cui ricordi di essere stato vivo fino a oggi.

Ferguson was not yet five years old, but he already understood that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.

These models will recognize the inter-connectedness of all things, turning away from the mindless materialism and consumerism that has destroyed the ecological capital on which we rely.

One, mentioned in a 2017 Economist article, felt "sharper, more aware of what [the] body needs" on 1P-LSD,

One of the Framers, Thomas Jefferson, said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Any nigger who isn't paranoid is crazy Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ullus niger vir quisnam est non insanus ist rabidus is

Quando la mente subisce un picco energetico di stress e stronzate, si spegne, chiude i circuiti cognitivi, e tu hai un vuoto mentale. Agisci, ma non sei consapevole delle tue azioni

That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.

It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

Tu dormis, tu perdis Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You snooze, you lose.

The wretched of the Earth, he calls us. People too poor to afford cable and too stupid to know that they aren't missing anything.

Gopnik compares baby consciousness to that of an adult dumped into the middle of a foreign city, totally overwhelmed, constantly turning to see new things, struggling to make sense of it all. Things are even worse for a baby, actually, because even the most stressed-out adult can choose to think of something else: we can look forward to getting back to the hotel; imagine how we would describe our trip to friends; fantasize, daydream, or pray. The baby just is, trapped in the here and now.

Pain can be better than meditation, because while meditation requires the constant choice to engage with the monkey mind, to gently push away those distracting thoughts, pain does the trick for you.

Empathy is the act of coming to experience the world as you think someone else does.

Paul Rozin's discoveries that people often refuse to drink soup from a brand-new bedpan, eat fudge shaped like feces, or put an empty gun to their head and pull the trigger. As Tamar Gendler points out, the mind works on two tracks. We know, consciously, that the bedpan is clean, the fudge is fudge, the gun is empty, and yet we can't help blurring the imagined and reality; our minds scream, "Dangerous object! Stay away!

the idea that you can't truly understand something without having experienced it yourself.

The duration of felt experience—our feeling of right now—is between two and three seconds, about how long it takes Paul McCartney to sing the words "Hey Jude." Everything before this is memory; everything after is anticipation. So what about a life dedicated entirely to improving this moving window of two to three seconds?

Further, spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases.

Part of the answer is that Sandy Hook was a single event. The murders in Chicago are more of a steady background noise. We're constituted so that novel and unusual events catch our attention and trigger our emotional responses.

WE'VE BEEN TALKING about meaningful pursuits, but there are meaningful experiences as well. Here the bar is dropped somewhat. These can be more passive and don't necessarily involve achieving a goal. What seems to be key here is that they will change you in some way.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

The health of the body depends largely on its attentiveness to the pain network.