Quotes About Awareness

The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress. With

If the future of humanity is decided in your absence, because you are too busy feeding and clothing your kids, you and they will not be exempt from the consequences.

Suffering is not an objective condition in the outside world. It is a mental reaction generated by my own mind.

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us.

According to the Buddha, then, life has no meaning, and people don't need to create any meaning. They just need to realise that there is no meaning, and thus be liberated from the suffering caused by our attachments and our identification with empty phenomena.

Religions that lose touch with the technological realities of the day lose their ability even to understand the questions being asked.

Ordinary people may not understand artificial intelligence and biotechnology, but they can sense that the future is passing them by.

For the average American or European, Coca-Cola poses a far deadlier threat then al-Qaeda.

what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

The world is becoming ever more complex, and people fail to realize just how ignorant they are of what's going on.

One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious, and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion, and my culture are the most important in the world—and therefore my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions, and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?

Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware of possibilities we don't normally consider. Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it.

How do you know if an entity is real? Very simple – just ask yourself, 'Can it suffer?

People are afraid of being trapped inside a box, but they don't realize that they are already trapped inside a box—their brain—which is locked within the bigger box of human society with its myriad fictions.

When you escape the matrix the only thing you discover is a bigger matrix.

We always prepare ourselves for the previous enemy, even when we face an altogether new menace.

for every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness

In the end he came to the realisation that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger.

the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is.

You cannot experience something if you don't have the necessary sensitivity, and you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long string of experiences.

some people who know next to nothing about meteorology or biology nevertheless propose policies regarding climate change and genetically modified crops, while others hold extremely strong views about what should be done in Iraq or Ukraine without being able to locate these countries on a map.

Since there is no national answer to the problem of global warming, some nationalist politicians prefer to believe the problem does not exist.

online giants tend to view humans as audiovisual animals – a pair of eyes and a pair of ears connected to ten fingers, a screen and a credit card. A crucial step towards uniting humankind is to appreciate that humans have bodies.