Skip to content

Awareness Quote by Eric Berne

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.” quote by Eric Berne — Download Open image

“Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Awareness Elsewhere Here and now Knowledge Past

More by Eric Berne

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

Image

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed…

Image

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Image

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we…

Image

Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that…

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Image

“Beautiful friendships” are often based on the fact that the players complement each other with great economy and satisfaction, so that there is a…

Image

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk…

Image

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

Image

“The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated, the whole…

Image

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere…

Image

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Image

Explore all 26 Eric Berne quotes

More Awareness quotes

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

Image

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We…

Chogyam Trungpa

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a…

Image

“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s self. Everything in the worldly life is nothing but intoxication. The food is intoxicating, the senses are intoxicating. [Therefore] Go to the one, who is without mada (pride), the one who has destroyed all intoxication. There…

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

Image

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

Image

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

Jonathan Tropper

Image

“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

Image

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Linda Evangelista

Image

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you. Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you. Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance. Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.…

Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

Image

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer…

Browse all 4,447 Awareness quotes