Quotes About Awareness

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. —Winston Churchill

The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     ââ'¬â€George Eliot

It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.

she spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it.

There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind. It was limited to tires or bottles... What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

We don't often notice the people who look after us, do we? Though we'd miss them if they weren't there

Somebody's noticing the immigrant crime wave: Google illegal alien crime and you'll get more than 2 million hits. Google immigrant crime and you'll get 40 million. Only our government and media refuse to notice. Then they turn around and denounce anyone else's estimate, saying: You don't know that. So tell us! We "don't know that" only because the people in a position to know have decided to keep it secret.

A sixteen-year-old girl at her homecoming dance was gang-raped and left for dead because the Democrats need more voters. We could save a lot of soul-searching about "our" violent culture if journalists didn't hide the fact that gang rapes are generally committed by people who are not from our culture.

I know your face by touch when it's dark, I know the profile of your sleeping face, the sound of you sleeping.

Have fun and be careful!

I could tell.

eyes slant, Claud.

bug on the wall.

Clothes. They've always been very important to me. Maybe that's also a part of being a city kid: in New York, I think even little children are aware of style.

Then I realized I smelled like horses and manure

Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

there is an alternative to being continuously spellbound by the conversation

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others.

But one need not believe in psychic powers to cut through the illusion of the self. Accomplishing this can be elusive enough. If I've met a person who has done so perfectly, I am unaware of it.

is one thing to say that you are unaware of a vast amount of activity in your brain. It is quite another to say that some of this activity is aware of itself and is watching your every move.

It is always now

If you just focus on the trees swaying outside the window without distraction, you will see your true face.