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Quotes About Sensing

The sensing and responding level of perception precedes minds, historically speaking, and is also present in minded organisms now.
~ António R. Damásio
Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation—the curtains whipped away—she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote.
~ Frank Herbert
I succumbed to the lure of the oracle , he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?
~ Frank Herbert
There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.
~ Frank Herbert
Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future…the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future—all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.
~ Frank Herbert
One day I had the paradoxical realization that humanity's search for meaning seduces it back into the world of thought and struggle, while pure sensing returns everything to the flow of Divinity. Suddenly the phrase "come to your senses!" is strikingly clear.
~ John C. Robinson
Yet their whispers slithered around me. And those scents, ah, not a one was like another. And as clearly as if spoken aloud it came, the summons from mortals here and there, sensing what I was, and the lust.
~ Anne Rice
I couldn't bear delving into his soul without his knowing it. Yet I couldn't stop myself from sensing a vast secret terrain inside him, grimmer perhaps than I had ever dreamed, and his words came back to me that the darkness in him was like the darkness I'd seen at the inn, and that he tried to conceal it from me.
~ Anne Rice
Your brain is optimized for pattern-sensing," Gavin commented. "And chatter.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I am someone that relies on my gut feeling.
~ Susie Wolff
These lion runs are more advanced in that we are sensing ourselves in relationship to where we are. Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive.
~ Sakyong Mipham
When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.
~ Toba Beta
Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
~ David Whyte
It was also during this time in my remote viewing development that I began to see things out of the corner of my eye.
~ Joseph McMoneagle
If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
~ Carl Levin
Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.
~ Judith Orloff, M.D.
Melon Shirt, on the other hand, has the walk and bearing and crackle of someone who is comfortable and dangerous. You can, if you are attuned to it, sense such things. You can feel it in your lizard brain, a primitive, inner warning trill that you cannot quite explain. Modern man, more afraid of embarrassment sometimes than safety, often ignores it at his own peril. Melon
~ Harlan Coben
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.
~ Haruki Murakami
Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
~ Haruki Murakami
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.
~ Jonathan Sacks
In order to trust your vibes, you have to first be able to sense them—and to do this, you must quiet your mind.
~ Sonia Choquette
Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
~ Adyashanti
He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.
~ Michael Chabon
I can smell trouble miles away.
~ Kathy Burke