Quotes About Awareness

If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.

If we know, even a little bit, that some of our familiar concepts, feelings, and objects exist only as a dream, we develop a much better sense of humour. Recognizing the humour in our situation prevents suffering. We still experience emotions, but they can no longer play tricks on us or pull the wool over our eyes.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

it looks dualistic, but it has that ability to liberate you from the bondage of dualism.

Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.

Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.

our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

The white realtor lady asks if I'm adopted—like that's some legitimate, socially appropriate question to ask—and is halfway through a gushy story about her friend's new baby from Korea when I say, "Haven't you ever heard of interracial marriage? It's all the rage in civilized countries," and she shuts up and purses her lips.

Lots of girls don't notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don't remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don't become upset that the boyfriend isn't interested.

No one in this family can see what's right in front of them.

At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something. A milkshake.

Other people adapt to you, asshole. You think there's no adapting going on, but you're fucking blind, Forrest. It's all around you, all the time.

I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.

Grow up, Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

In other words, everyone in the panopticon knew they could be watched at all times, so in the end, only minimal watching actually needed to happen. The panopticon would create a sense of paranoia so pervasive that its inhabitants became practically self-governing.

Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Do not accept an evil you can change