Awareness Quotes

"The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety" "What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to" "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it." "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" "A man who won’t listen can’t hear" "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way" "When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts" "Listen deep enough, you always hear something" "I have an existential map it has 'You are here' written all over it" "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you." "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out." "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." "Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost" "Ignorance is the parent of fear." "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into"