Quotes About Awareness

know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.

That was the trouble with searching for the truth. It wasn't always pleasant. It wasn't always something you wanted to find.

I could head east from Fifth Avenue and reliably reach Madison, turn south from 53rd and get to 52nd every single time. The scientist—or the Buddhist—might declare such perceptions were illusions, but not one of them would head uptown to get to the Bowery. They knew what they knew. They saw what they saw. So

the very fact that the mind can be deceived implies that it can be not deceived, that it can know things rightly—deep things—beauty, truth—just as they are.

Every parent is astonished when their child becomes, quite suddenly, a young person. Only yesterday … Why didn't we notice what was happening when it was happening? Why had we been too busy to enjoy her progress towards the cusp of maturity?

You are . . . depressed? Bored?" "Are there other feelings?

But at my back I always hearTime's winged chariot hurrying near;And yonder all before us lieDeserts of vast eternity.

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them

we don't even know we are being negative when we're being negative.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

We exchange knowing nods, aware that this won't really end the pain, but killing monsters never does. It's just something you have to do when you see them for what they are.

Two percent of the population is sociopathic. They just don't feel the way you or I do about others. If you come in contact with fifty people in a day, one of them is a sociopath.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

What have you learned?" She wanted to tell him that he was a peculiar and infuriating young man. "That people don't listen." "Precisely. Just because you can see the problems of an elliptical problem doesn't mean that others will listen. And that's what we do.

You only see what you're paying attention to. You're likely to trail bear tracks all the way back to the bear.

I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

While they're attention was on the front of the store,

We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

My gut says to like him. The rational part of my brain tells me to pay attention to the obvious.

my animal brain, my early warning system that listens for noises and looks for the signs of predators,