Quotes About Awareness

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world

I never watched the sun when it was overhead dragging the day after it.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Uno cree saber lo que busca, pero sólo al final, cuando lo encuentra, comprende realmente qué andaba buscando.

Have a care therefore where there is more sail than ballast.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

Well, neither does anyone else. We use concepts like 'consciousness'—'mind'—'personality,' but we don't really know yet what they are. So when I start talking about something like multiple or split personality, all we have are some

Well, they couldn't, so apparently each of these cells has a consciousness, maybe, of its own. Are you with me?" Chris nodded. "Yeah, a little." "Good. Now imagine that the human body

the meantime, I don't know who you are, but you

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

As was said by Thomas Jefferson, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.

The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, "one second after," the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants will not

Gus, I know you hit your head, but you should be able to tell a few things about Tara. Like for instance she isn't printed on cheap paper. When she talks, her words don't appear in balloons over her head. And after long and hard study, I can guarantee she exists in at least three dimensions.