Quotes about Awareness

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.