Quotes About Awareness

is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation"—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the unseen guest and the silent listener to every conversation.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

I just don't think humanity is the ultimate end. We're so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I've lived with cats most of my life, so I'm very aware that there's another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.

When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

She was a bit better to take than her husband, but she was a terrible cook and I seemed to be the only person at her dinner table that realized this.

Slowly the silent bird turned its head. It could do so, if it chose, through more than three hundred and sixty degrees.

As we grow older, we become more aware of the larger flow of life

And he would have been most surprised if anyone had told him he was prejudiced, it being the nature of a prejudice that those who possess it have no idea that it is prejudice at all.

but there was no need. For at that

propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.

Het probleem van dingen doen die je eigenlijk niet wilde, was dat je je er opeens zo duidelijk van bewust werd wat voor andere dingen je allemaal had kunnen doen.

There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that they were dangling from its jaws, like Saturn's children, already half-devoured.

I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That famous imposter, the present, disappears in the cognitive gap. Mind the gap!

Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?

made him more conscious of how little experience he had of saying what he meant.

forced to observe the fringes of unconsciousness and make darkness visible;

The gospel is only available to people who know they are unclean.

Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.

Everything turns inward in depression. A beautiful flower momentarily catches your attention, but within seconds the focus bends back into your own misery. You see loved ones who are celebrating a recent blessing, but before you can synchronize your feelings with theirs, you have doubled back to your own personal emptiness. Like a boomerang that always returns, no matter how hard you try, you can't get away from yourself.

Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.