Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.

No necesito referencias —dijo—. Sé quién es usted. Lo busqué en Google. ¿Tiene pensado matar a alguien? —¿Qué día es hoy? —Me parece que jueves. —No, no tengo pensado matar a nadie.

Before she became ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying them enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them, but that was another matter entirely.

Virgil was not a man to take time to look at the stars, not when he might miss a nickel on the ground in the process.

it had been a small consecration, a minor epiphany, and no more

Perhaps it was just a function of realizing, as the years went by, how little he really knew about very much at all.

The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.

there was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a clock to be repaired and after a time you become aware of its absence because its gentle, reassuring tick is gone and you miss it so.

He'd long ago figured that you knew you were aging when you couldn't hum any tune on the Billboard Hot 100.

one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

discovered that silence made a lot of people uneasy, and they would often say something to break it, thus revealing themselves in the process.

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

One ignored the mundane at one's peril.

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

lagophthalmos—a

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read!

If the 'I' is understood strictly as we have been taking it, then it is quite certain that knowledge of it does not depend on things of whose existence I am as yet unaware; so it cannot 28depend on any of the things which I invent in my imagination.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

People must realize that the Christian begins from the finish line. Robert Capon says brilliantly, "the flat announcement of the Gospel turned out to be that the saints were home before they started. God saves us single-handedly!"19 We are already inner healed. Just turns out that most folks don't know it. It is all a completed work of grace.

And yet, though we wake, though there is no end to waking and saying Oh I see, not ever [...], still within the dream in which we find ourselves every other dream is nested, every one we have awakened from.

Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.

One of the virtues of drink was how it reduced life to these simple matters, which engaged all the attention; seeing, walking, raising a bottle accurately to the hole in your face. As though you were two years old again. No thoughts but simple ones. And