Quotes About Awareness

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

It's an incontrovertible fact that many--more than half of all children--will try [drugs]. For some of those, drugs will have no major negative impact on their lives. For others, however, the outcome will be catastrophic.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem, not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

I wish someone had shaken me and said, "Intervene while you can before it's too late." It may not have made a difference, but I don't know.

In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.

Drugs pervade every college campus in America, and every city, so a young adult must learn to live among them.

Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin. Another concern is an opioid called carfentanil, which is as much as one hundred times more potent than fentanyl. According to the New York Times, an amount smaller than a snowflake could kill a person.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

On average, a teenager is exposed to approximately eighty-four references to drug use every day and almost six hundred references every week—that's more than thirty thousand a year.

Deep down, you know you're him.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

We don't want half-truths, misinformation and a cute, dumbed down description of reality using cringy words. We want words we have never heard before. Give us cerebral explosions. Give us words that trigger nuclear reactions in the darkest places of our unconscious. We want the laser light of knowledge that removes all confusion, illusion and delusion. We welcome and embrace the pain of transcending our conditioned minds.

It's hard to get to know your unconscious because … it's unconscious. However, thanks to projection, we can externalize our unconscious, and that then gives us the chance to interact with it and come to an understanding of it, and finally allow us to withdraw our projections and integrate them into our consciousness. We make sense of our unconscious via its projections, via what it latches onto in the world around us.

When we start to realize that we're not going to be here forever, we become aware that it's not clear what it meant to be here at all.

Peekaboo teaches a baby to imagine the continuity of reality," George wrote. "And that's an important step toward achieving consciousness.

You never think about the things you don't think about, the things that are just there, part of the background, part of the routine.

Curiosity familiarized the cat with its surroundings so it wouldn't be surprised.

It's a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles—inside me and outside me—and the point where they overlap is where my experience of consciousness is located.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

All their lives they had been taught to think of sight as an anathema.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.