Quotes About Awareness

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Denial is often the first line of defense: refusing to accept that the bad news is true.

To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.

Para ver cierro los ojos

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

a root cause of suffering, according to the Buddha, is our fierce sense of self-centredness. Interestingly

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

We are conscious observers of the universe. Even if the universe as a whole possesses no consciousness, we do. In this sense we can be said to be a part of the consciousness of the universe, or of its self-consciousness.

Our goal is to present climate science and solutions in language that is accessible and compelling to the broadest audience, from ninth graders to pipe fitters, from graduate students to farmers.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

My awareness of myself and my own issues enables me to relate to and feel compassion towards the vulnerability of being human. Its is the thing we share and it gives us a strong foundation to build upon.

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

It doesn't matter what you've got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

There is a way of looking at things when you are alone in the woods at night. You see more clearly the things at the corner of the eye, and hear all the little crackling noises, the saw of your own breath, even the thumping of your heart. All so clear. It is as though on stepping out of the city an older part of the brain starts to work again. The part that remembers flint and bone and ice.

You'll find when you are sad, there'll come a point when you are so sad you don't even know you are sad anymore. It's quite nice.