Quotes About Awareness

A sense of urgency comes from a powerful connection to the present

If they come from another culture, it is all the more important to understand this culture from within their experience.

Most people believe that they are in fact aware of the future, that they are planning and thinking ahead. They are usually deluded: What they are really doing is succumbing to their desires, to what they want the future to be. Their plans are vague, based on their imaginations rather than their reality. They may believe they are thinking all the way to the end, but they are really only focusing on the happy ending, and deluding themselves by the strength of their desire.

Never ignore a detail or leave one to chance. Orchestrate them into a spectacle and no one will notice how manipulative you are being.

Remember the following: Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head. Knowing

Once envy reveals itself for what it is, the only solution is often to flee the presence of the enviers, leaving them to stew in a hell of their own creation.

Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...

What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.

It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

If it's really education you want for Nathan,' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it from books or people that aren't afraid to tell the truth.

You're going to mess this up, do you know that? You don't even see what's in front of you. You're like everybody else. No, I'm not. You're dreaming backward.

Someone was out there, watching from afar.

What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

Her cheeks flamed with heat as her gaze shifted downward with a look of horror. There's something hard in your breeches, and I think it's moving!

For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we're not required to set aside money for every burger we consume (to cover the real financial cost of the burger), the long-term costs of carrying extra weight remain invisible.

I have known a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. —OUIDA

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What

Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.

Just because they don't hear the song (of the world) doesn't mean it's silent.

We touch people with our minds, with our words, and with our bodies. I have always sensed that we are at all times healers or destroyers. There is no middle ground. (A.R.E.

It is the paradox of truly perceiving that the more you do the less effective you are, and the more you hide the more you show.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can't see for ourselves, and then we change forever.

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