Quotes About Awareness

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

If you want it to be as perfect as it can be, then you have to learn to ride the pause. Stay in the moment.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.' I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue.

Sometimes," said Julia, "I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood.

I don't believe,' said Mr Prendergast, 'that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed. Don't you agree?

he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church;

If everyone at twenty realized that half his life was to be lived after forty…

Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions—with the aid of my five senses." I have since learned that there is no such world

Observability is the degree to which the results of an innovation are visible to others.

I want to tell you about your heart-- you've probably been neglecting your heart-- and you don't know.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

There are two ways of rejecting the revolution. The first is to refuse to see it where it exists; the second is to see it where it manifestly will not occur.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

I know myself, he cried, but that is all.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.