Quotes About Awareness

So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, year by year until the movements were reflexes and made for the rest of our life without thinking.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

It's like that moment when, often early in the morning, perhaps in a strange house, you pass before a mirror you hadn't known would be there. You see a glimpse of someone reflected in that mirror, and a moment passes before you recognize that that person is yourself. Literature exists in moments like that.

Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).

Spies and parents never sleep.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I've envisioned that woman's silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions--or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

As the morning wore on, she was grateful

caught up in causes and concerns and plans for the future and forget what truly mattered—loving and being loved, in the present moment.

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, "I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.

What history had taught him was Amazement. A tremendous amazement that each time those in jeopardy had been so slow in thinking about their safety.

My memory follows rules that my conscious being cannot explain, though they may have something to do with my subconscious being.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.