Quotes About Awareness

Finally, we should consider the contribution system. Are we able to see our own contribution to the problem? Are we able to describe the other person's contribution without blaming? Are we aware of the ways that each of our contributions forms a reinforcing pattern that magnifies the problem? In what way does this shift how we feel?

we don't know what we don't know.

the normal course of things, we don't notice the ways in which our story of the world is different from

In the normal course of things, we don't notice the ways in which our story of the world is different from other people's.

It is a fundamental rule: feelings crave acknowledgment

We Notice Different Things.

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

Even when we have access to the same data, we tend to notice different things. We are all moving along the same sidewalk, but the historian may notice the brickwork, the jogger the impact on her knees, and the fellow in the wheelchair the areas that are less accessible. We're engulfed by information—far too much to take in—and so we select small samples to pay attention to and ignore the rest.

Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.

Living in the answer, while forgetting the question that gave birth to it, will cause the answer to become mechanical, habitual, or dispirited. Conversely, living only in the question can lead to confusing or debilitating uncertainty and ambiguity. We need both.

Cómo alcanzaré la vida eterna?" "Ya es la vida eterna. Entra en el presente". "Pero si ya estoy en el presente… o no?". "No" "¿Por qué no?" "´Porque no has renunciado al pasado". "Y ¿por qué iba a renunciar a mi pasado? No todo el pasado es malo…" "No hay que renunciar al pasado porque sea malo, sino porque está muerto". Anthony de Mello.

En otras palabras, si se logra reconocer los eventos de la mente como ideas y no como la realidad, automáticamente el sujeto de la experiencia se coloca en un peldaño de la realidad más libre, inclusivo y abstracto, comparado con la situación en la cual se identifica con los contenidos y los confunde con la realidad.

En otras palabras, el observador no es una entidad concreta sino algo más, un proceso, un flujo…

Cuando el yo deja de ser el rector de la percepción, la realidad se vive tal cual es: cuántica y súbita; esta visión natural rompe la cárcel de la continuidad y asume un carácter milagroso.

Mientras más perfecto sea el instrumento en su pureza, es decir, mientras menos filtros interfieran en su trabajo, la Realidad se percibirá como es: un proceso carente de azar.

Lo más difícil de observar es el mito personal, el tema de la identidad a través de la cual se percibe el mundo. Cuando se logra observarlo, desaparece como filtro y entonces la "Ignorancia Iluminada" se despierta porque ya no existe nada a qué aferrarse, nada de qué depender, nada conocido y familiar que otorgue seguridad.

La sensación de familiaridad que irradia un verdadero líder resulta de la capacidad que este posee de incorporar en su experiencia personal la experiencia de la especie. Esta incorporación resulta de la identidad de la conciencia del líder con la conciencia del hipercampo.

Read…packaged food labels like they're the hottest thing from Oprah's book club.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Only fools charge head without knowing what lies in wait. – Scourge

Taking things for granted is a good way to get yourself killed. – Scourge