Quotes About Awareness

Thus it is plain that faults that are evident to the senses, gross and corporal, or otherwise notorious to the world, we know by our enemies sooner than by our friends and familiars. PLUTARCH, C. A.D. 46-120

Look at things as they are, not as your emotions color them.

moving past our usual self-absorption, we can learn to focus deeply on others, reading their behavior in the moment, seeing what motivates them, and discerning any possible manipulative tendencies. Navigating

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

At a certain point, you can almost become a stranger to yourself.

The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.

So much of our obsessive, internal thought process tends to disconnect us from the world.

Image: A Virus. Unseen, it enters your pores without warning, spreading silently and slowly. Before you are aware of the infection, it is deep inside you.

Empathy plays an enormous role in learning and knowledge.

Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge?

How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to do it! You went along from day to day, down paths other people had prepared for you, never raising your head - enfolded in their logic, from swaddling clothes to shroud. It was a kind of fear. Well, goodbye to that. And good to leave it behind - whatever happened now. - 214

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible. "Before

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You always knew if a film was out of synch, however fractionally; you always knew if someone fancied you, however improbably; and you always knew when someone was on your tail.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible.

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

The most common problem I find among silent sons is their belief that they're just like everybody else. In other words, many either believe that their family was not dysfunctional (when in fact it was) or believe that it was dysfunctional, but they were not affected. This is not unusual for men. The following are some classic behavior patterns in silent sons.

The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.---Irrational Exuberance

No somos conscientes de nuestra divinidad; de que somos parte del gran principio de causalidad del universo. No sabemos cuál es nuestra fuerza y sin saberlo no podemos usarla.