Quotes About Awareness

In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature

Il primo minuto della giornata lavorativa ci ricorda tutti gli altri minuti di cui è fatto il giorno, e non è mai bene pensare ai minuti come entità singole.

Time stops for the duration of a cigarette: when you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself; you step outside the unconscious rush of life. This is why the condemned are allowed a final cigarette...it's a lot easier to leave the world if you're certain that you have really been in it.

Time and again Gary had the feeling that there was something disagreeable that his family wanted to forget, something only he insisted on remembering; something requiring only his nod, his go-ahead, to be forgotten. This feeling, too, was a Warning Sign.

the difference between him and her was her capacity for self-deception.

Que una persona no dé buen uso a su vida no significa que su vida deje de transcurrir. De hecho, su vida transcurre aún más deprisa.

There was such a relative paucity of smells in California that the interconnectedness of all possible smells was not apparent. She

I think there's eternity in every second we're alive.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

with nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

El dolor se presenta como producto e indicador naturales de estar vivo en un mundo que opone resistencia. Pasar por la vida indoloramente es no haber vivido.

In the instant before it was over and pure nothing, he heard all the human voices in the world.

People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.

Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.

If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.

All the best paintings made you see various levels of reality at once. They sent you inward as well as outward.

The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

When I was a boy I used to love pizza, and whenever my father took me to the pizzeria I'd order two slices. And I'd sit and he'd watch me wolfing down the first slice with my eyes on the second. I wasn't even tasting that first slice. And one day my father said to me, Son, you need to learn that while you're eating the first slice of pizza, eat the first slice. Because right now you're eating the second slice before you've finished the first.

I've learned not to trust what I see on television.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.

Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.