May Sarton Quotes

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

I'm very big on feeling.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" It doesn't tell me how I feel about it tomorrow or even a few minutes from now. It just tells me how I'm feeling right now.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts.