Quotes About Awareness

Neuroscientists say they can predict an action our mind has decided to take moments before our conscious mind has even decided what we think we're going to do. The function of consciousness, they argue, isn't to make decisions, but to rationalize them after the fact.

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

This is what scares me—the idea of becoming a monster without ever realizing it.

But to paraphrase the Supreme Court's statement about obscenity, when it comes to patterns, I know them when I see them.

The distractions I try to avoid the most are the ones I invite on myself.

Pay attention. If something sounds suspicious, ask questions. Don't ignore it just because everyone else does. Our tools give us capabilities the rest of the public can't even imagine. If we're not vigilant, something bad could happen, and we might find those capabilities taken from us. I make mistakes. You make mistakes. Don't run from them. Seek them out. Correct them. Listen when someone is telling you something is suspicious. Don't ignore it.

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Back then, just like now, whenever people look the other way when evil is around them, the wicked will find it.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

I memorize my life so it's still there when i arrive again in the morning.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

How deeply we can wound our own children,' I muttered, more to myself, but he perked up. 'Feel no fear about it. I spoke to these two kids. I think they wrote off both their parents years ago. Kids sense things sooner than we expect. They're even good at hiding how much they know from us. I'm sure you remember things when you were a child.

Why was it a stranger could look at me and immediately see me, but my husband of nearly twenty years could barely see me standing in front of him most of the time? Do we eventually wear each other, put on each other like a pair of old gloves, hardly noticing what we're doing because we've done it so often?

I never liked the way time went by when I worked for Sebastian. It wasn't that it dragged; it was completely the opposite. I would look up and discover that I had been swimming for hours and had never lifted my head up long enough to realize it. If anything, it contradicted the expression, Time flies when you're having fun. Time just evaporated

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented

He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. 'You're just not going deep enough,' Luke said. 'Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

Reality's got a lot to answer for

You've got to be a prose professional, get out of bed every morning and say, what is pressing on my nerves? You've got to come out of your trap every morning life you are equal to your times.

Sometimes, monsters are real," Tess said, rolling over, leaving me alone with the ladybug staring up at me. "Even if they don't look like monsters.

There are things in this world most of us never see," I find myself saying. "We've trained ourselves not to see them, or try to pretend we didn't if we do. But there's a reason why, no matter how sophisticated or primitive, every religion has demons.

And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.