Quotes About Awareness

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I didn't hear the footsteps. Or see the shadow. Instead from where I was crouched on the ground, the green of the grass filling my vision, the first thing I made out were hands, a flat silver ring on the middle finger of each. One was clutching my notes. The other was reaching out for me.

Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we might have not even known was there.

At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.

Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

For some reason, blame is often directed toward me. I have to be vigilant.

You first learn truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

I'd just never really taken the time to picture it. It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-Mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

I was here, too. But all my life I felt like an observer than an active participant. It was safer there but could be lonely too, or so I was now realizing. Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know.

Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. Is hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you

Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. It hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you.

I felt a surge of shame; I'd been so stupid to bring him here. Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger directly to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Life's short, you know?" [...] But, suddenly, in that moment, it was like I could feel [Abe]. Sitting in the very seat where I was, riding along with us. Maybe he's been there the whole time.

Something was changing, something I could sense even though I'd never been here before, like the way baby turtles know to go to the water at birth, instinctively. They just know.

Don't think, or judge. Just listen

I am consciously surrendering conciousness.

Y no digo que no sean felices. Sólo que hay que tener mucho cuidado con lafelicidad. Porque tiene tendencia a ser temporal.

Think careful, not cool. While driving, keep windows cracked but not wide open. Some people think that letting a dog hang their head out the window is cool, but it's dangerous. Dogs can get hurled from the car in an accident or have debris fly into their eyes, causing permanent damage.

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath

I tilted my head, looked into the distance. I don't even notice you falling in love with me, I practiced to the mirror. I am too preoccupied with what I am doing. Nobody wants to be noticed when they are falling in love. It is a private moment. Whoever was falling in love with me, I reasoned, deserved not to be disturbed.

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.