Quotes About Awareness

us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

She knew he was watching her and she didn't care. She expected it.

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The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, centered, and wondering what on earth happened.

quoting Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat: "Good friends beware! the only life we knows Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, the Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.

At the same time, he was aware that literature was more than sociological data: it changes, not just reflects, expectations and experiences.

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

When you are infatuated with someone,like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The important thing is to be aware of your needs and wants, so you can go about getting them met with full consciousness. If you pretend that you have no needs for sex, for affection, for emotional support, you are lying to yourself, and you will wind up trying to get your needs met by indirect methods that don't work very well. [...] Do not commit yourself to a lifetime of hinting and hoping

How are we to teach our children to say "no" to an abusive adult if we are not frank about what it is that they should say "no" to? When we try to keep sex secret from our kids, they are aware that something is going on, but they don't know what. And if we leave them to get their sex information in the playground or on the street, from equally ill-informed other kids, we consign them to the jungle.

Listen to your fears: they have a lot to teach you about yourself.

People are attracted to playing in their shadows because it is very hot, intriguing, sexy. Please don't think that we are robots doomed to reenact the dysfunctions of our childhoods over and over without release, but rather that we seek out opportunities to struggle with these conflicts so that we have a chance to make the story come out differently. If we let these desires drive us without our awareness, they may manifest in destructive ways.

We explained how we use S/M to explore our darkness, illuminate it with our clear awareness, and reclaim forbidden territory as psychological healing, a way of becoming whole.