Quotes About Awareness

What prevents us from loosening our grip on love is simply a lack of knowledge. This is what can make unrequited love so vicious. By denying us the chance to grow close to the beloved, we cannot tire of them in the cathartic and liberating manner that is the gift of requited love. It isn't their charms that are keeping us magnetized; it is our lack of knowledge of their flaws.

The philosophy of mature love is marked by an active awareness of the good and bad within each person, it is full of temperance, it resists idealization, it is free of jealousy, masochism, or obsession, it is a form of friendship with a sexual dimension, it is pleasant, peaceful, and reciprocated (and perhaps explains why most people who have known the wilder shores of desire would refuse its painlessness the title of "love").

There is a great difference between identifying a problem and solving it, between wisdom and the wise life. We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Everything is amazing—once.

Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.

Our fear of failing at various tasks would likely be much less were it not for our awareness of how harshly failure tends to be viewed and interpreted by others.

The forthrightness of the middle-aged seducer is rarely a matter of confidence or arrogance; it is instead a species of impatient despair born of a pitiful awareness of the ever-increasing proximity of death.

n'allez pas trop vite.

there is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

We had learnt to feel respect for circuit boards and pity and guilt towards glaciers.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

A momentus but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.

the average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

It is difficult to get the news from poems

Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait until dark to be heard. During

Instead of bringing back sixteen thousand new plant species, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small, unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm, nor does it arise from sentiments of which nonartists are devoid; it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

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