“Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.” ThinkingHas BeensPhilosophyCoursesDifferencesMankindAwarenessDenyDestinationPlatoLaboratorySuccessorsPragmatism Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.” IfsWorldSaidShowsFeelingsPainCoursesSoundExistenceSubjectsAwarenessColorColdElementsPerceptionConsciousPhilosopherHeatAdagesSensoryConscious AwarenessBerkeleyHeat And Cold Author:Zeno Vendler
“Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind of music. And a lot of that expression comes from a kinesthetic awareness. And it's - that's one thing that I think people identify with, and of course there's the moment that you're in.” PeopleThinkingKindMomentsBodyCoursesOne ThingAwarenessExpressionSingingDepthConnected Author:Dolora Zajick
“As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.” ThinkingKnowsYearsPersonsLongTwoRealSelfShowsDiesThreeCoursesAwarenessBehaviorPatternsTeenagerTwo YearsThree YearsFearfulThink Of YouReal SelfThree Year OldsTwo Year Olds Author:Deepak Chopra
“Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.” PeopleSaidCountryThreeCoursesDealsAwarenessWeakSafetyInstitutionsPreparedDenialHostileGuineaEbolaHealth And Safety Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.” IfsThinkingMightCoursesLinesKindnessPathAwarenessFineBlessingToughTraditionMethodIndifferenceDullSatireFine Lines Author:George Saunders
“Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.” IfsTryingI CanCoursesDifferencesAwarenessTwentiesVicesEraseVice VersaAmplify Author:Vivek Shraya
“Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.” MindMeanLittlesStatesCoursesSilenceTreeAwarenessWindHappeningsBirdMirrorsFocusedFallenConcentrationStillnessReflectingListen To Me Author:Rajneesh
“The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.” LooksMomentsLightPastCoursesPowerfulMeditationTeachingAwarenessHabitCurrentsCommandBuddhistStreamsThat MomentSwimConditioningSwimmerBatteredChanging Course Author:Stephen Batchelor