Quotes About Awareness

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You have no news at all About love's folk, how they have fared, Or anything at all that God has made. Not just events in foreign lands Remain mysterious to you, You don't know a thing—and hear Nothing else besides—about the folks Who dwell outside your very doors.

Be a mirror, not a sponge.

Describe the situation as you see it without exaggerating, making judgments, or explaining how you feel about it.

Denial of problems only enables and reinforces the negative behaviors.

People with BPD feel all emotions intensely, not just anger.

Mindfulness is awareness without judgment. As mindfulness researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn notes, mindfulness is "the ability to be aware of your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and actions—in the present moment—without judging or criticizing yourself or your experience" (2005).

Pay attention to the person's words, body language, expressions, and tone of voice. This will help you validate the person's feelings. People with BPD are not always in touch with their own emotions, and by listening closely you may be able to hear beyond the words and detect the feelings that lie beneath the surface. In

listening gives you the opportunity to learn.

When you or your loved one have an intense reaction to something, chances are good that one of your triggers or "hot buttons" has been pushed.

Many people we talked to for this book told us that the person with BPD in their life seemed to be aware of their triggers.

Minimizing any visible reaction: If the person with BPD knows the button-pushing is having the desired effect—whether consciously or unconsciously—chances are that the behavior will be repeated.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.

Kill your television!

The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

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

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.