Quotes About Awareness

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

The Now is not an ultimate state to be realized but rather a continuum to be lived.

That is, you can't get outside the present to make it an object of thought.

It is for this reason that your ego cannot let you become fully present, for the moment you are, it recedes and there is only awareness, only being. And this scares your ego to death, because it hasn't yet understood its relationship to awareness.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.

Nothing will change until people with the power really try to imagine the lives of other folks beyond their own direct experience.

the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.

child, he had learned the gift of watchful silence.

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

and relationships in the here and now.

Anxiety develops a hair trigger, ready to go off at stimuli that we don't even notice. Not understanding what made us anxious, the conscious mind searches for an explanation, and often enough creates its own.

there's evidence to show that "certainty" is only a feeling, like anger or excitement, the result of unconscious forces at work in the brain.

Some like the acronym ANTS for automatic negative thoughts, because like ants they seem to creep in from nowhere to spoil the picnic.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the patient could not possibly have MPD because she was aware of the other alters [sic!].

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.