Quotes About Awareness

Our brains construct a world that no one else can see, touch, or hear. Or, as Buddhist teachers sometimes say, "The truth is a pathless land.

a person with an ACE Score of 4 or more is, statistically, 1,220 percent more likely to attempt suicide than someone with an ACE Score of 0.

Are you calling me a dummy?" "Not at all. I'm just saying that maybe some of us caught on a bit faster than others.

I still have to buy tonight's special--unless you're about to tell me that's already been handled, too." "Not that I'm aware of," he replied easily. "But then, I just got into town late yesterday, so I'm not fully up to speed yet." Oh, he was speedy all right. "It scares me to think what you'll know after a full twenty-four hours.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

Back in his seat, he said, -Did I tell you not to stay in the sun?- He narrowed his eyes. -You are black as a negra.-

Lauren calls this one Revelation.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —HELEN KELLER

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

I live every day to the fullest -- as if it might be last, as you never know when your number's up!

our divine origin is spiritual love. Love is the source of all of our power, of everything we need and desire. To block love's awareness is to block everything.

Following a trauma at any age, there's a reduction in the number of neural pathways between the limbic system (pertaining to feelings) and the cortex system (managing thought and cognition). So after being traumatized, you're less aware of your feelings.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — HELEN KELLER (1880–1968)

We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.

To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art—borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

Seine Knochen schmerzten. Keiner hat ihm gesagt, dass Trauer ein Schmerz in den Knochen ist, in jeder Zelle des Körpers.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.