Quotes About Awareness

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Neither my sisters, who were nowhere near, nor I knew depression; we knew bad mood. We didn't know drinking as disease, but as character flaw. Weakness. We didn't know "dysfunctional," but we lived it. We knew that if you were miserable, you brought it on yourself. She taught us.

You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic, I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

They kept saying global warming wasn't going to be the end of us, that it was just theatre from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and floods and hurricanes and fires - every element expressing the earth's imbalance.

You cannot see me from where I look at myself.

I think of it as creating a connection to ourselves, to the Divine, and to others in a more harmonious and intelligent way. Creating connection and presence with our relationships. - Amy Ippoliti

And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don't know yourself?

You should read it over again," Robin said. "Especially the part where the person comes out of the spell and finally sees clearly.

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.

Regina seemed so good-natured about her handicap that Jessica could hardly believe it. Then a horrible thought entered her mind. Is Nicholas deaf, too? she asked.

I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn't known enough to ask.

One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren't.

convinced us that she is telling the truth as she describes the world around her and looks inward, as if her private self is a foreign country whose geography and customs she is struggling to understand so that she can live there.

The most important things, I told them, were observation and consciousness. Keep your eyes open, see clearly, think about what you see, ask yourself what it means.

You are free, you just don't know it ~Michael to Sarah

We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing.

Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

Don't let a day go by without seeing some wonder in it, Cadi. Stop moping around the house wishing for things to change between ye and yer mama. Go out and see what's there for ye." God was there. God was everywhere.

Michael saw God in everything. He saw him in the wind and the rain and the earth. He saw him in the crops that were growing. He saw God in the nature of the animals that inhabited their land. He saw him in the flames of their evening fire.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. LEWIS

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.