Quotes about Awareness

Tick. Tick. Tick. This is the sound of your life running out.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look...the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

He felt as if there was something—deep in his brain, behind everything he thought and everything he was—which he did not know, but she knew, and he wished he did, and wondered whether he could ever know it, and should he, if he could, and why he wished it.

She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.

He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.

The feeblest imbecile should be able to see the glaring contradictions in every one of your statements." "Let us put it this way, Dr. Stadler. The man who doesn't see that, deserves to believe all my statements.

Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.