Limited Awareness Quotes

People only see what they are prepared to see.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like the drunk who lost his keys and is looking under the streetlight, and the cop says, "Where'd you lose your keys?" You say, "Back in the alley, but the light's so much better over here." The divided self refers to the fact that we are basically animals with animal brains. These animal brains run our lives. They're very good at it.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.