Quotes About Awareness

He said every time you look at a sunset and feel an expansion in your chest, that's the Divine in you recognizing the Divine in nature.

You are your life, so your life is wherever you are.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez en cuando, a ver qué aprendo. —Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.

Y sin él, yo no entendía para qué me despertaba por las mañanas.

Quizá cada gato o cada perro se crea inmortal, porque no ha muerto. ¿Me sigue usted? Pero nosotros sabemos que moriremos y vivimos obsesionados con combatir la muerte, lo cual hace que ella tenga una presencia desmedida, a menudo aplastante, en nuestra vida. El ser humano tiene alma en la justa medida en que es consciente de su propia muerte.

A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is a slow and painstaking step. We might think we have made that step only to realize we have to make it again.

after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.

If a world can be what we learn not to notice, noticing becomes a form of political labor.

Complaints about hostile environments might be necessary in order not to reproduce hostile environments. But complaints about hostile environments are often made in hostile environments.

Becoming the race person means you are the one who is turned to when race turns up. The very fact of your existence can allow others not to turn up.

This kind of caring for oneself is not about caring for one's own happiness. It is about finding ways to exist in a world that makes it difficult to exist. This is why, this is how: those who do not have to struggle for their own survival can very easily and rather quickly dismiss those who attend to their own survival as being self-indulgent. They do not need to attend to themselves; the world does it for them.

So much feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended; that sexism and racism are fundamental to the injustices of late capitalism; that they matter.

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

accommodated. For example, even when universities have access policies, it is often still left to students with disabilities to find out about those policies, to ask about access arrangements at each and every event. 7 The very effort required to find out about access can end up making events inaccessible.

And note then: you can killjoy not as a deliberate or intentional act; you might even be trying to participate in the joy of others. You can killjoy because you are not properly attuned to the requirements of a social system.

Why are we so careless that we let our own histories die without even noticing?

Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

The monster—if there was one—never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.