Quotes About Awareness

Open your eyes and see what you can before they close forever.

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this -- that he knows nothing yet.

On est très loin de comprendre ce que c'est d'être aveugle, quand on ferme les yeux.

not shifting so the desk frame doesn't go screek screek, not breathing so he doesn't smell any smells, but sweat is trickling down his ribs, and Wesley Ohman keeps opening and closing the Velcro on his left shoe, and Tony Molinari's lips are going poppoppop, and Mrs. Onegin is writing a huge, terrible A-M-E-R-I-C- on the whiteboard, the marker tip rasping and squeaking, the classroom clock ticktickticking, and all these sounds race into his head like hornets into a nest.

Los sordos pueden oír los latidos de su propio corazón, frau Elena?

and he thinks of Argus Panoptes, the watchman of Hera, who had eyeballs all over his head and even on the tips of his fingers, so many eyes that when he closed fifty of them to sleep he held fifty more open to keep watch.

Can deaf people hear their heartbeat?

Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it

Yesterday she walked three hours to harvest water lilies from a lake so her kids would have something to eat. And what do our most enlightened leaders suggest we do? Switch to e-billing. Buy three LED bulbs and get a free tote bag. Earth has eight billion people to feed and the extinction rate is a thousand times higher than it was at pre-human levels.

the doctor recognizes himself in the bear's awareness, a nameless silhouette in the landscape, cleansed of every accusation;

All the things he did not see... (a black bear, two hawks, horsemen, a trio of summer cabins far below him...)

By then Mkondo had become more than a game; it was the one way she could be certain she was alive.

To close your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

A good journal entry—like a good song, or sketch, or photograph—ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart.

but one of the dying's imperatives is to make the living see them. This is nobody's fault, but it is everybody's burden.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

If our beliefs don't evolve and shift and grow during our lives then I have to wonder if we are actually paying attention.

Our motto instead is, "Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty." Turn up the noise.

Gaius was now thirteen years old and well able to understand the seriousness of the situation.

When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience.

I have known the sun when I saw it, even though clouds dimmed its face.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

You're never too young to die.